A FRESH appeal has been made for a father of seven who mysteriously vanished from his home more than seven months ago.

Daughter, Pauline Nash says she's "desperate" to hear any news about her father, Basil Edgar Wright, who walked out of his flat in Tutshill near Chepstow on June 24.

"I just want to know something," says Mrs Nash. "It's a bit of mixed feelings really. If he's gone at least I'd know. If he's alive and hasn't got in touch, that's a bit hard."

Mr Wright, a 76-year-old pensioner and father of seven left the Hanover Court flat on the Wyebank Estate he shared with his second wife at 11.30am. There was no warning.

"Nothing at all," says Mrs Nash. "I just had a phone call saying 'it's about your dad' and my heart started racing and then I was told 'he's gone', disappeared."

"He left behind his wallet, his phone, his keys and his car," says son-in-law, Dave Nash. "And he'd only insured it and taxed it a couple of days before."

Despite appeal posters going up around Chepstow, there's been no concrete news since.

"He was thought to have been seen at Gloucester Railway Station, and there was another sighting when a farmer spoke to him in a cornfield at Sedbury Lane," says Mr Nash. "But we live in Torquay so we find it quite hard to do very much. My wife is really desperate to hear something."

Originally from Dorset, Mr Wright only moved to the Tutshill area a couple of years ago. He is known to have sometimes become 'down' and didn't keep in close touch with his children.

"I do believe he's still in the Tutshill area," says Mr Nash. "He did have odd jobs – handyman type jobs locally so he might have kept going with those."

Anyone who might know where Mr Wright is can call Gloucestershire Police on 0845 090 1234 or Dave and Pauline on 01803 291818.