‘I know it’s one chance in a million’: Heartbroken husband waits outside Hamleys for missing Karen Brown

UPDATE: Karen has now been found safe and well

Missing Clydebank grandmother Karen Brown found safe and well in Glasgow city centre

A heartbroken husband spent Saturday outside London toy store Hamleys desperately seeking his missing wife after she was spotted 425 miles from home.

Jock Brown, 48, has been worried about Karen, 47, since she vanished on Saturday October 14, leaving her husband and children asleep in their beds.

Karen, who recently became a gran for the first time, left the family home in Clydebank early on the Saturday, and police have said they are “extremely concerned” for her.

She is known to have boarded a bus from Glasgow to London that morning and there was a potential sighting of her in Hamleys toy store, in the capital, on October 17.

Hundreds of smiling families flooded in and out of the iconic toy shop yesterday as Jock patiently waited outside.

In the hope he spotted Karen, Jock wanted to urge his wife to come home and said he would do whatever he could to make her happy.

He said: “If I find Karen I have no clue what I am going to say.

“I have had the conversation dozens of times in my head and I just do not know.

“My aim is to urge her to come home, but I want to know she is safe and what I can do to make her happy and better.

“As a couple we were in a good place until this happened. Life has been OK with us recently –we haven’t had any arguments or fights.

“We have just come back from New York and we had a great trip.

“And we have just had a granddaughter.

“It is just so weird. I got here at about 10am. I drove down last night and got here this morning.

“This was where Karen and I used to stay and we tend to stick to routes we know and places that are comfortable.

“We used to come to London for weekends and trips. We have been here three times in the last four years or so.

“I’m either going back tonight or tomorrow morning. I still have young kids and my youngest Chloe is 12 and I have to get her ready for school in the morning

“I know it is a one-in-a-million chance, and the police suggested it was a long shot but sitting in the house is useless.”

On the day she disappeared Karen left her bag, keys, phone and purse at home and also abandoned her position at Asda.

At roughly 8.20am she appeared on CCTV boarding a bus from Glasgow to London and further footage shows her walking around Hamleys last Tuesday.

Desperate, Jock travelled more than 400 miles to find his missing wife and beg her to join him in the car to drive home.

“When she was spotted I thought she might have been buying a gift for our granddaughter and then she would come home, but that was 10 days ago.

“I struggle to understand her leaving the house and coming to London.

“It is so out of character.”