A 34-year-old landscape labourer from North Katoomba has been missing for three weeks and Blue Mountains Police are hopeful the public can help find him.
The last confirmed sighting of Dennis Brooks, a former environmental scientist, was at the Gearins Hotel on Monday May 2 at 9pm.
Police said the father of one was on “medication at the time and because of that we hold concerns for his welfare”.
“We are asking people to keep a lookout for Dennis,” Detective Acting Inspector Adam Evans said.
Mr Brooks does not a phone with him and left his home unlocked. He has not accessed either his bank or Opal card accounts since the end of April.
His sister, Monica Brooks, says her brother is a keen bushwalker and asked “bushwalkers, abseilers and those travelling in national parks” to keep an eye out for him anywhere from Penrith to Lithgow.
“When he is unwell he doesn’t really have an awareness of his body limitations.”
Dennis is 189 cms tall, weighs 80 kg and has brown eyes, brown hair and olive skin.
“He has previously gone off walking in the bush. He finds solace in the bush, so he may be living rough, we have no evidence one way or the other,” Acting Inspector Evans said.
Police said there was no suggestion he had met with foul play in the pub.
“We don’t have any concerns at this stage that anything untoward has happened to him at the Gearins.”
A witness has told police she saw Mr Brooks on the afternoon of May 3 in Katoomba, but this has not been confirmed yet by camera footage. Phone: 4782 8199
