THE family of a missing man have pleaded for anyone with information to come forward on the second anniversary of his disappearance.

Chris May, 28, has not been seen since leaving his home on May 25, 2015.

Police have been treating his disappearance as a murder case since last year.

They believe he may have been murdered while on the way to a drugs deal.

During an interview at Police HQ in Chelmsford this morning, mum Lorraine May said: "Two years on it still feels like the first day. People say after two years it should get easier as you are going to work and getting on with your life but we are not ok.

"We have not coped over the past two years. I do not think any of us have been able to sleep since.

"With what the police have said we do not know what to believe. We all believe he is alive but it is hard not to have doubts.

"He was a proper mummy’s boy and a lovely boy. He was all you wanted a son to be."

Chris left his home in St Mary’s Road, Kelvedon, at around 9.45am on May 25 and has not been heard from since.

He sent a text to a friend in Kelvedon that morning to say he was going to Braintree but his phone was switched off from 11.50am.

His silver Volkswagen Golf was found abandoned in Troy’s Chase, Fairstead, two days later.

Mrs May said: "Normally if we were going through something like this it would be Chris that would get you through it.

"In some ways we are lucky that we are so close as a family but it makes it harder as well.

"You play out all these scenarios in your head trying to find out what is going on.

"We believe someone out there does know and I don’t know how they can live with themselves. If it was their family they would want to know.

"Part of me is expecting it not to be good news but we just need to know. It gets worse over time because of the loss of hope."

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Chris had been using drugs and was known to be dealing substances locally including ecstasy, cocaine and mephadrone, also known as dolly.

Police believe this involvement with drugs is linked to his death and have received four letters sent by anonymous authors, all claiming to know information about Chris’ whereabouts, but officers have proven two of the letters to be hoaxes.

Mrs May added: "We did think maybe he has taken himself off but we are not getting any information about it and it makes me think carefully about it.

"We are very angry at anyone who knows anything and hasn’t come forward.

"Whoever wrote the letter must know something but has not come forward. I think it is cowardly to do something like that."

In June last year a 35-year-old man from Braintree was arrested on suspicion of Chris’ murder and a 25-year-old man from Kelvedon was arrested on suspicion of perverting the course of justice during a pre-planned operation.

They were both released without charge due to insufficient evidence.