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Missing Person

18-year-old student missing on DCU society trip in London

Patrick Halpin was last seen leaving a nightclub off Leicester Square in the early hours of Wednesday morning.

Updated at 8pm

POLICE IN LONDON were searching for an Irish 18-year-old who went missing while on a society trip with Dublin City University.

Scotland Yard said the Galway man was last seen leaving Zoo nightclub on Bear Street off Leicester Square in the early hours of Wednesday morning.

He is believed to have been travelling with up to 40 other students from DCU’s Drama Society.

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