{"id":36687,"date":"2025-12-20T16:37:44","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T05:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=36687"},"modified":"2025-12-20T16:37:44","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T05:37:44","slug":"appeal-to-locate-man-missing-from-cliftleigh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2025\/12\/20\/appeal-to-locate-man-missing-from-cliftleigh\/","title":{"rendered":"Appeal to locate man missing from Cliftleigh"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Police are appealing for public assistance to locate a man missing from the state\u2019s Hunter region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Barry Parker, aged 78, was last seen on Busby Street, Cliftleigh, about 9.30pm yesterday (Thursday 18 December 2025).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Officers attached to Lake Macquarie Police District were notified and commenced inquiries into his whereabouts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police and family hold concerns for Barry\u2019s welfare due to his age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Barry is described as being of Caucasian appearance, about 170cm \u2013 175cm tall, of medium build, with grey hair and grey eyes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was last seen wearing a black shirt and navy-blue shorts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Inquiries established Barry may be traveling to Queensland in a silver 2017 Honda SUV with NSW Registration DLE14Y.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Barry is believed to frequent Bolton Point, Cliftleigh areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police are appealing for public assistance to locate a man missing from the state\u2019s Hunter region. Barry Parker, aged 78, was last seen on Busby Street, Cliftleigh, about 9.30pm yesterday (Thursday 18 December 2025). Officers attached to Lake Macquarie Police District were notified and commenced inquiries into his whereabouts. Police and family hold concerns for &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2025\/12\/20\/appeal-to-locate-man-missing-from-cliftleigh\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Appeal to locate man missing from Cliftleigh&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newcastle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36688,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36687\/revisions\/36688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}