A Co Tyrone woman has increased an award from £10,000 to £100,000 for any information that would lead to her missing son Gerard Conway.
Mr Conway (32) has been missing since late January or early February this year from the flat he shared with a friend in Cookstown. He suffers from a bipolar disorder and his family is very anxious about his safety, fearing something "sinister" may have happened to him.
His mother, Mary Conway, a former Cookstown publican and widow of 18 years, said she feared the worst but that she and her other four children were desperate for information that might lead to his where-abouts. Ms Conway said: "I will do anything to find Gerard, he needs rest." She added that on the advice of her solicitor there was an August 31st deadline on the reward.
Ms Conway said her son was last seen in Cookstown on January 26th, although there was one other sighting of him on February 6th.
She did not believe he had taken his own life because so many searches had taken place.
However, she feared "something sinister" may have happened to him or that he fell in with "sinister people", and that someone knows what happened to him.
She said he needed medication for his condition but that he had not taken his regularly prescribed medication since December. He had not touched his bank or post office accounts since January 25th, and did not take anything with him when he left Cookstown. Moreover, he has a young daughter in Belfast whom he regularly e-mailed. "He hasn't been in contact with her either, not even on her birthday in May, which is not normal for him," Ms Conway said.
Mr Conway is described as 6ft tall, of medium build, with blue eyes, dark brown short hair and with a distinctive scar over his right eye, which was a result of an accident.
