By CASEY NEILL
NOBLE Park grandfather Mahalingham Sinnathamby has been missing for almost 10 years.
The Sri Lankan-born 68-year-old was last seen at a doctor’s appointment in Carrum Downs on 25 August 2005.
He filled a prescription at a Dandenong pharmacy and returned home with the medication – then nothing.
National Missing Persons Week runs from 1 to 8 August and brings cases like Mr Sinnathamby’s back into the spotlight.
In February last year, Detective Senior Constable Kane Taylor – then in the Greater Dandenong CIU and now in the Homicide Cold Case and Missing Persons Squad – told a Coroner’s Court direction hearing that police believed Mr Sinnathamby to be deceased.
“All signs of life have just stopped, but where is he? We really don’t know,” he said.
Mr Sinnathamby was formally listed as a missing person on 24 November 2005 after worried family members were unable to contact him.
Investigations have taken police to hospitals, morgues, Queensland and Western Australia.
“It’s been the most exhaustive investigation,” Det Sen Const Taylor said.
“We’ve not left any stone unturned.”
Call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 with any information or submit a confidential crime report at www.crimestoppers.com.au.
