A desperate mum has turned to mediums in the hope of finding her missing son - but has been left with even more heartache.

Pauline Green thought psychics would help find Matthew, who was last seen at their family home in Rock Road, Sittingbourne, aged 26 on April 8, 2010.

But instead of getting the answers to his whereabouts, it has caused heartache for the couple after two of them suggested the roofer was dead.

Mrs Green, 58, said: "One of them from Australia said they saw him as being passed over due to a drugs overdose, another also from Australia said they felt the same thing and it was heroin.

"It made me feel sick and a bit low. I went back and said heroin was a definite no, no. I’ve not heard anymore from them.

"Another said she was being drawn to Westminster. She said he now has long hair in dreadlocks with a beard and wearing a long green coat similar to what was worn by the mods/rockers era. She said she felt a bang to the front of the head followed by confusion and that he is a shadow of what he used to be like.

"He gets jobs unloading lorries and working as an extra pair of hands and goes to second-hand book shops."

Mrs Green, pictured left with husband Jim, added: "I’ve been told to ignore them but I will clutch at straws, anything.

"I still believe he is alive. I've got to believe he's still alive. Until I've got 100% concrete evidence that proves otherwise, until that day happens he's alive, in my heart he's alive and I've got to think that way."

Among their efforts to find their son, Pauline and her husband Jim, 60, created a Facebook group, put posters up in various locations across the UK and in May last year, appeared on the BBC programme Missing 2011.

A missing persons' appeal about Matthew featured in the Big Issue, on February 6 and February 27.

The couple were also interviewed by Gloria Hunniford for a programme which aired on ITV in February.

As a result three sightings were reported to the charity Missing People, but none of them amounted to anything.

Anyone with any information is asked to call the Missing People on 0500 700 700.