Channel Four Live Cam

Friday 2 August, 9.00am

Good morning all, Jean Acheson with the Live Cam, and one of Australia’s leading criminologists says that the police may have less than thirty-six hours to save Alan Proctor, the prime minister’s close confidante who disappeared last night.

Mr Proctor spent most of yesterday in Sydney working on the government’s campaign. He flew back into Canberra early last night for a strategy meeting, but failed to show up. And since then he’s been uncontactable. Ominously, his abandoned car was found in the inner-Canberra suburb of Yarralumla early this morning.

Bond University’s Professor Stephen Billings says Mr Proctor’s apparent disappearance is a cause for grave concern, coming as it does just days after the kidnapping and murder of Environment Minister Susan Wright.

The professor says that if Alan Proctor has been taken by the same people who took Mrs Wright, the police only have until tomorrow night to rescue him. This is Jean Acheson. Back with more in a moment.