Wednesday 25 May 2022 07:01 PM Police probing disappearance of 15-year-old who vanished from his foster home ... trends now

Wednesday 25 May 2022 07:01 PM Police probing disappearance of 15-year-old who vanished from his foster home ... trends now
Wednesday 25 May 2022 07:01 PM Police probing disappearance of 15-year-old who vanished from his foster home ... trends now

Wednesday 25 May 2022 07:01 PM Police probing disappearance of 15-year-old who vanished from his foster home ... trends now

Missing boy becomes a man: Police probing disappearance of 15-year-old who vanished from his foster home in 1999 issue computer-generated image of what he might look like today  Phillip Harris, 15, was last seen leaving his West Bromwich home on July 28, 1999 Police have released a computer generated image of Phillip as a 38-year-old man 75% of an age-progressed face is taken from pictures of parents at the same age Today, International Missing Children's Day, highlights all the missing children  

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 A 15-year-old boy who went missing 23 years ago has had a computer-generated image of what he might look like today released by Police.

Police investigating the disappearance of Phillip Harris hope that releasing this picture may reignite the search for him.

Mr Harris vanished after he told his foster parents he was spending the night at a friend's house on July 28, 1999.

The computer generated images of Phillip Harris show him as he would look today, after being officially missing since 1999

The computer generated images of Phillip Harris show him as he would look today, after being officially missing since 1999

Despite media appeals in Birmingham and Manchester, where he had family, there have been no confirmed sightings of Mr Harris since the morning he left his home in St Eleanors Close, West Bromwich.

Police officers spent three weeks searching a house in St Paul's Road, Smethwick, but failed to find anything last month.

Midlands Police have now released a computer generated image of Phillip as a 38-year-old man in a desperate bid to solve the mystery.

Detective Sergeant Andrew Padmore said: 'The investigation into Phillip's whereabouts remains very much open.

'We have released these images, in the hope that someone may recognise him, or it will trigger a memory for someone to come forward with any information.

Phillp Harris, 15

Computer generated Phillip Harris, 38

The computer generated image (r) shows what Mr Harris would look like today, age 38

'Any information, no matter how small it may seem, may really help our investigation, so we urge anyone to contact us.

'Phillip's family continue to miss him terribly and my team and I are committed to finding Phillip to solve the mystery of what has happened to him.

HOW DOES IT WORK? 

Researchers feed-in facial feature data into the system from a large database of individuals from different ages.

This teaches the computer software exactly how different features on the human face age, making it more accurate than previous system.

The data includes information about ageing in different races and genders.

The model can also take data from a missing person's relatives to further improve its accuracy.

The technology then maps out the key features, such as the shape of the cheek, mouth and forehead, of a face at a certain age. 

This information is fed to a computer algorithm which then creates new features for the face to produce photographic quality images of the

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