CCTV twist in Mary search

THE nine-day search for a missing Dundee mother took a dramatic twist last night as detectives released a photograph of her dancing with the man her family fear has abducted her.

The picture, taken inside Dundee's Fat Sam's nightclub on the night she vanished, shows Mary McLaren with her arms around the mystery man in whose company she was last seen alive.

Mrs McLaren was reported missing after she failed to return home following a night out with her sister, Michelle Rodger. Ms Rodger has claimed that a man they met in the nightclub had pestered them for sex and Mrs McLaren's family fear she may have been abducted.

The missing woman's mother, Margaret McIntosh, said: "I am going out of my mind with worry and I can't go on without my daughter Mary. My heart's broken. I just want her to come home. "

She pleaded: "Whoever's out there and has got my daughter – bring her back home safe, I'm begging you."

Mrs McLaren, 34, of Rowantree Crescent, Dundee, has not been seen since the early hours of Thursday, 25 February, when she left the city centre club.

Yesterday, in the hope of a breakthrough, Tayside Police released the photograph of Mrs McLaren and the mystery man dancing in the nightclub and a photograph of the type of distinctive white duffel coat she was wearing, left.

The appeal for information about the missing mother has also spread to the internet. Special web pages, pleading for Mrs McLaren to return home, have been set up on the Bebo and Facebook social networking sites, together with a YouTube video appealing for information.