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‘I cannot accept he’s gone’: Mum’s desperate plea over missing son

Sylvia shares her pain with New Idea - by Katherine Davison
  • 04 May 2018
‘I cannot accept he’s gone’: Mum’s desperate plea over missing son

The heartbroken mother whose son vanished in 2014 has shared her pain in an interview four years after his disappearance.

Nick Veljanovski was 28 years old with a great job, a steady girlfriend, a close family and a promising future when he went for a walk in Sydney’s Royal National Park on 11 June 2014.

He has never been seen since.

Episode 5: New Idea Investigates - What happened to Nick?
Mum’s desperate plea over missing son

Sylvia says her family lives in 'hope and prayers'

‘I cannot accept that he’s gone without any concrete evidence,’ his devastated mother Sylvia tells the New Idea Investigates podcast.

‘I live in hope. The whole family lives in hope and prayers.’

What happened to Nick that fateful day, and what theories surround his disappearance? New Idea Investigates…

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