By Casey Neill
Two psychics have given Vitolio Lato’s family hope that the missing 20-year-old hasn’t met with foul play.
Police joined Vito’s father Toma and twin brother Patrick at Dandenong Police Station on Tuesday 25 October to appeal for any information about his whereabouts.
Earlier in the day police released CCTV showing his final known movements at a factory in Elliot Street, Dandenong South, about 4.14am on Monday 17 October.
“I’m missing my son. I hope to find my son,” Toma said.
“Vito, I love you. We miss you.
“We need you to come back home.
“Vito’s the prince.”
Vito work with his dad who is a contract truck driver.
He’s religious, volunteers in the Tongan community and has seven siblings.
“I really miss him,” Patrick said.
“He is a lovely person.
“We’re pretty close.
“We haven’t been this far apart from each other.
“I can’t really feel him because he’s too far away from me.”
Patrick said he’d been looking for Vito from suburb to suburb with help from friends.
“We’ve checked everywhere,” he said.
“We tried his phone.
“It just went straight to voicemail.”
Vito hasn’t been active on social media since the day before his disappearance.
He hasn’t accessed his bank accounts or used his phone.
“It appears this young man has gone missing of his own volition, but the longer he’s missing the more concerns we have,” Greater Dandenong CIU Detective Senior Constable Rob Colcott said.
“We’ve started with a scattergun approach because there’s no indication he received any threats,” he said.
He said Vito was an adult and entitled to disappear.
“But this sort of thing causes enormous stress and pressure to a family,” he said.
“There’s a big hole in the family.
“We just want to know he’s OK, whether he’s fallen into some strife….”
Det Sen Const Colcott said police hoped this appeal would rule out foul play.
“That’s not a direction of the investigation at this stage,” he said.
“The greater passage of time, the more we cannot afford but to start looking in that direction.”
Vito is described as 183 centimetres tall with a solid build, short dark hair and dark-coloured eyes.
He was last seen wearing a fluorescent green top, dark-blue pants and black work shoes.
He is known to frequent the Epping and Dandenong areas.
Anyone with information is asked to call Epping Police Station on 9409 8100.
CCTV captured the last images of missing man Vitolio Lato.
