Victoria Police issued appeals to help find Scott Graham in English and Spanish on Monday. Officers here have been working with Spanish police to support their missing person investigation.
The daughters of a missing Victoria man are heading to Spain this week to look for him as Victoria Police appeals to the public for help.
Victoria Police issued appeals to help find Scott Graham in English and Spanish on Monday. Officers here have been working with Spanish police to support their missing person investigation.
Anyone in Spain who sees Graham is asked to call 122. Anyone outside of Spain with information on his whereabouts should call the Victoria Police Report Desk at 250-995-7654, extension 1.
Graham, 67, was last seen at the Canadian embassy in Madrid on July 15.
Since then, the family has not heard from the man they describe as a loving father who could be counted on to keep in touch during their holidays.
“It’s been a wild ride and it doesn’t seem like it [as if] it will be over soon,” daughter Georgia Graham said Monday from Montreal.
Georgia, her partner James and her sister Kaiza go to Madrid together to see if they can dig up any new information, hoping that being in person in Spain will make all the difference.
Family members have been working hard to gather information about Scott Graham’s movements and health.
Graham requires daily anti-rejection medication after a kidney transplant and her family is unsure if she has been able to get more after she lost her purse on a bus on July 11.
Georgia said it’s time to go to Spain because they feel they’ve gone as far as they can in their search while in Canada. His first stops will be the Canadian Embassy in Madrid and the Madrid police station.
“We’re going because it’s very, very difficult to get clear information from anyone,” he said. “I still don’t really know what the police have done.” A police friend has helped them with a list of ways to ask.
Graham, who is retired, went to Amsterdam to visit friends before embarking on a solo trip to Spain and Portugal.
While in Spain, he was left at a bus stop, his passport and medication taken by the bus to the tourist community of San Sebastián in northeastern Spain.
Graham has also experienced small strokes and may have cognitive problems, his daughter said.
Graham’s most recent communication was via an online update to his brother, explaining what had happened.
His worried family have spoken to an official at the Canadian embassy in Madrid, where Graham went to apply for a new passport.
He was supposed to return on July 18 to collect the document but he did not show up. He did not catch his July 29 return flight from Amsterdam to Vancouver.
Georgia said the family has learned that he went to hospital in both San Sebastian and Madrid. I was looking for new medicines in Madrid, but they have not been able to tell if they provided them. They do not know the name of the hotel where he was staying.
The Graham family has been contacting news organizations and posting on social media to spread the word, asking anyone who can help to contact them at findscottgraham@gmail.com.
Many offers have come from Spain to help with transport, translation and navigation, Georgia said.
A GoFundMe page called Support the Search for Scott Graham has been set up to help the family with their search in Spain.
cjwilson@timescolonist.com