{"id":9527,"date":"2020-12-08T11:24:16","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T11:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=9527"},"modified":"2020-12-08T11:24:16","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T11:24:16","slug":"missing-man-lake-macquarie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/12\/08\/missing-man-lake-macquarie\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing man &#8211; Lake Macquarie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police are appealing for public assistance to locate a man missing from Lake Macquarie.<br \/>\nPatrick Thaidy, aged 60, was last seen at his home on Delasala Drive in Macquarie Hills about 12am on Sunday (6 December 2020).<br \/>\nFamily members reported him missing to police later that day and officers from Lake Macquarie Police District commenced inquiries into his whereabouts.<br \/>\nPolice and family members hold grave concerns for his welfare due to medical conditions.<br \/>\nHe is described as being of Aboriginal\/Torres Strait Islander appearance, about 175cm tall, with a medium build, short black hair, scruffy facial hair and brown eyes. He is not currently wearing his dentures.<br \/>\nHe was last seen wearing grey \u2018Everlast\u2019 track pants, a blue \u2018Everlast\u2019 long sleeve shirt and black shoes.<br \/>\nHe is known to frequent areas in Lake Macquarie, Newcastle, Sydney and Wollongong.<br \/>\nAnyone who may have seen Patrick or who may know of his whereabouts is urged to contact police or Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.<br \/>\n<strong><em>Anyone with information about Patrick&#8217;s whereabouts is urged to contact Crime Stoppers: 1800 333 000 or<\/em><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/nsw.crimestoppers.com.au\/\"><strong><em title=\"\">https:\/\/nsw.crimestoppers.com.au<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong><em>. Information is treated in strict confidence. The public is reminded not to report information via NSW Police social media pages.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police are appealing for public assistance to locate a man missing from Lake Macquarie. Patrick Thaidy, aged 60, was last seen at his home on Delasala Drive in Macquarie Hills about 12am on Sunday (6 December 2020). Family members reported him missing to police later that day and officers from Lake Macquarie Police District commenced &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/12\/08\/missing-man-lake-macquarie\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Missing man &#8211; Lake Macquarie&#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-9527","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\/9527","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=9527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}