The British police on Monday claimed to have made some headway in tracing Indian-origin student Gurdeep Hayer,20,who went missing from Manchester on January 2. The Greater Manchester police said they have spoken to a taxi driver who drove Gurdeep after he came out of Sankeys nightclub at 2.15 am on that day. They said the taxi took him to an address in the Rusholme locality of Manchester. Based in West Bromwich,Gurdeep had travelled to Manchester to celebrate New Years Eve with his friends. On January 2,after he hailed the taxi,Gurdeep asked the driver if he could stop the taxi on Hathersage Road in Longsight,as he wanted to get out,the police said. The taxi driver obliged and Gurdeep then paid his fare and got out of the taxi. Detective Inspector Mark Radford,of South Manchester CID,said: Gurdeeps family are understandably fraught with worry for him,as nobody has seen or heard anything from him for a week. We now have new information into the last known sighting of Gurdeep,which we have released in the hope it may jog someones memory, he added. Gurdeeps mother,Peramjit Kaur,became concerned after her son did not return home as planned on January 3 and reported Gurdeep missing two days later. Gurdeep is a first-year student of Business Studies at Glyndwr (RPT Glyndwr) University in north-east Wales. Kaur told the media: It is completely out of character for him not to keep in touch with me,hes a very reliable person.
