Brother says missing Aberdeen twin sisters ‘had no plans to move flat’ – latest

The family of two sisters who have been missing for almost a week have appealed for anyone with information to come forward, saying “all we want is for them to be found”.

Lucinda Cameron has the full report:

Detectives searching for two sisters who vanished on a Scottish bridge a week ago have returned to the spot where the pair were last seen.

Our reporter Barney Davis has more details on the search here:

Henrietta and Eliza Huszti, who were described as being “very close”, moved from Hungary to Scotland together around seven years ago.

They are both aged 32, and have a triplet sister Edit. They also have a brother named Joszef.

The two sisters lived in Aberdeen and had been saving to buy their own home.

Their brother described them as cautious people, who always talked decisions through with each other and their mother, with whom they were very close and spoke to at least weekly, if not daily.

Their brother Jozsef Huszti said their mother spoke to Eliza and Henrietta for 40 minutes on the Saturday before they went missing and nothing seemed unusual.

Their other sister Edit also said she had spoken to them on New Year’s Eve and they appeared to be happy and cheerful.

She said it was out of character for them to be on the streets in the early hours of the morning.

As their family appeals for any witnesses to come forward, Eliza and Henrietta were both described by police as white and of slim build with long, brown hair.

The Hungarian nationals were last seen on CCTV on Market Street at the Victoria Bridge over the River Dee at around 2.12am on 7 January.

They crossed the bridge and turned right onto a footpath next to the River Dee heading in the direction of Aberdeen Boat Club. They have not been seen since and searches have now entered a second week.

Detectives searching for two sisters who vanished on a Scottish bridge a week ago returned on Tuesday to the spot where the pair were last seen.

Officers spoke to people in the area during an early morning operation on Tuesday to try and shed more light on the sisters’ last known movements.

Police Superintendent David Howieson said detectives are keeping an open mind about what happened to the sisters, but have said they have not found anything to suggest a third party was involved.

Mr Howieson said: “We’re trying to remain open minded in terms of what the wider circumstances may have been. What we know is that the behaviour of the sisters in the morning on which they disappeared is very out of character.

“We don’t really understand why they seem to have left their home address and walked to this area in a fairly direct line before the CCTV footage of them is exhausted.

The twins’ brother Joszef Huszti told the BBC that his sisters had no financial difficulties and were saving up to buy their own property.