By Gary Cooper

THE DEVASTATED husband of a missing Angus woman begged her to return home in a tear-filled appeal at the weekend.

Leigh Vivian (49) made his emotional plea as police continued their search for his 42-year-old wife Moira, who vanished from their Forfar home on Wednesday.

“We just want her back,” he sobbed, as he struggles to cope with each day of her continuing disappearance.

“She is a wonderful person, she is beautiful. If Moira is reading the paper, we want her to know we are desperate for her to come back.

“There is no need for her to run away, we can face things together—whatever she is going through.

“Please, if there is anyone who knows anything at all, no matter how insignificant they feel it might be, can they get in touch with the police?”

Mrs Vivian’s disappearance comes six months after one of her daughters, Dundee University student Sheridan, took her own life. She was just 18.

Hours before she left the family home at Dundee Loan on Wednesday evening, Mrs Vivian had asked through The Courier for help to trace a mobile phone holding precious pictures of Sheridan.

Sheridan’s sister Steffanie (17) lost it on a bus and was frantic with worry as it contained images including one of her tragic sibling in her coffin.

The family was given a small comfort after the phone was found and handed to them on Friday—thanks to a Stagecoach Strathtay worker.

Police inspector Donald Thomson said, “As a result of the appeal in The Courier, the employee remembered a similar phone had been handed in and retrieved it from lost property.”

Offshore worker Leigh said all the cherished images were still on the phone.

“It is a great piece of news, but everything is focused on my wife,” he continued.

Each day that passes without any sighting of his wife is taking its toll on Mr Vivian, who is not sleeping or eating, while daughters Steffanie and Tamzin (9) were attempting to cope in their own ways.

Mr Vivian said, “The young one, Tamzin, feels that Moira has gone for a walk and got lost, while Steffanie has been with her boyfriend.

Police carried out searches of Forfar for Mrs Vivian at the weekend after a huge sweep of the town and surrounding area by officers, a Royal Navy helicopter and involving a boat drew a blank on Friday.

Officers carried out house-to-house inquiries in the Dundee Loan/Dundee Road area on Saturday, while searchers scoured the route between her house and Balmashanner Hill.

It was based on her last sighting—shortly after 7pm on Wednesday, a short distance from her home—and took in back gardens and outbuildings.

Insp Thomson said, “We would appeal to people to check their outbuildings and garden sheds.

“We have now had a number of very cold nights and I am very concerned for Moira’s safety if she has been out in that weather.”

He repeated an earlier plea for anyone who has seen Mrs Vivian or was in the area around Dundee Loan after 7pm on Wednesday to get in touch.

Moira Vivian is described as 5 feet 2 inches, of slight build with short, blonde hair. When last seen she was wearing a short black zip-up jacket, a black Playboy tracksuit and pink trainers and had a medium-sized zipped handbag.

The primary school worker had told her daughters she was going to the cinema, which never happened.