Trevor ROBINSON

Cousins search for missing recluse
By Police Reporter SAM RICHES - Adelaide Advertiser
17aug05

TREVOR Robinson is a recluse who rarely ventures outside his Richmond home – he has now been missing for a week.

With few friends and suffering depression, Mr Robinson, 55, kept regular phone contact with his cousin Ray and wife Colleen – his only family.

He contacted Mrs Robinson last Wednesday night and planned to see her daughter on Thursday. Mrs Robinson said there was nothing in their last conversation to suggest he was upset.

"He just said he was going to the Royal Adelaide Hospital and then home to bed," she said yesterday.

He did not arrive at the hospital and, when Mrs Robinson's daughter arrived at his Craig St home, the radio was blaring and lights were on in three different rooms.

"He always turned off the lights and he always rang us if he went anywhere, which he rarely does," Mrs Robinson said.

"He cannot cope without his medication and he just wouldn't just leave it behind. He's not streetwise and he'd be an easy target."

Mr and Mrs Robinson have travelled from Broken Hill to look for Trevor. Mr Robinson usually drives but his car is being repaired.

Neighbours last saw him walking along Brooker Tce on Wednesday afternoon, wearing jeans, a shirt and a blue jumper.

Mr Robinson wears gold-framed prescription glasses, is slim, about 75kg and has dark brown hair. He has a twitch in one eye and shakes visibly.

Mrs Robinson said he had been suicidal in the past but had always phoned mental health crisis teams.

"He couldn't cope mentally or physically without his medication and he wouldn't just veer away on his own," she said.

Police confirmed Mr Robinson had been reported as missing but have not publicly released details.

Anyone with any information is asked to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.