A silhouette of a body was seen in the Waikato River hours after a 35-year-old truck driver went missing from his Hamilton home.
Nicholas "Tommy" Atkins, a father of one, has not been seen since walking out of his suburban Fairview Downs property early on July 30.
Family members found
his clothing on the banks of the Waikato River last Thursday but a police search found no trace of him.
Police today said a man had told the Fairfield Bridge Dairy shop owner he had seen the silhouette of a body in the river at about 11:30am on July 30.
An elderly couple in the store volunteered to accompany the man back to where he had made the sighting, police said.
