The parents of missing man Matthew Green are coming up against a brick wall in their desperate search to find him, but believe he is still alive.

It is four months since the 26-year-old self-employed roofer went missing from the family home in Rock Road, Sittingbourne.

He was last seen on Thursday, April 8, when he told his parents Jim and Pauline, he was going to stay with a friend for the weekend in Mile End, London.

Mrs Green discovered he had gone the following morning and reported him missing when he failed to return home.

Records show his bank account has not been touched and his passport has not been used.

Since his disappearance, posters have been put up in shop windows in Sittingbourne, Folkestone and Gatwick Airport and CCTV footage checked.

In recent weeks, Mrs Green scoured Mile End Road, going to the Salvation Army, drop-in centres and parks.

After receiving information that
Matthew had been seen on a bus in Bow Church, in the Mile End area, she travelled back to London with a work colleague – drawing a blank once again.

Mrs Green, who has set up a second Facebook group, also learned early in July that a psychic told a relative that someone with the initial M had left home, they were OK, living rough in the Manchester area and there would be a telephone call.

As a result, about 300 flyers were taken to Manchester – but again, with no result.

Mrs Green said she would not normally put any credence on psychic readings and admitted she was "clutching at straws".

Her next course of action is to ask TFL (Transport for London) to put up missing person posters of Matthew in its buses.

"I’ve got this gut feeling," she said.

"I don’t think he realises what he is doing. Because he has mental health issues, he probably doesn’t even know what day of the week it is. But he has done absolutely nothing wrong."

Anyone with any information should contact police on 01622 604167 or Missing People on 0500 700700.