VIC:Wife pleads for missing husband's return

AAP General News (Australia)
08-10-2011
VIC:Wife pleads for missing husband's return

By Belinda Merhab

MELBOURNE, Aug 10 AAP - Every day at 5.20pm, Jodie Annett awaits a call from her husband
to let her know he is 10 minutes away from home before the couple have dinner together
with their six-year-old daughter.

But on Thursday last week, the call never came and Chris Annett's friends and family
have not heard from him since.

The 56-year-old was last seen at 5.30am that day leaving his home in Tarneit, in Melbourne's
west, for the CBD where he works as the manager of an electrical company.

"We all sit down as a family and have our tea and that was every night, that was our
routine," Ms Annett told reporters in Melbourne on Wednesday.

"When he didn't turn up at 5.30pm, I kept calling his mobile and it was switched off
so I just kept trying and trying and that's when I actually called the police, because
that's just too out of character for him.

"I have no idea why he's just up and gone.

"We've got a six-year-old at home and she's crying out for her daddy to come home."

The last trace of Mr Annett was at 10.30am on the day he disappeared, when his debit
card was used to make two withdrawals, worth $200 and $400, at an ATM in Ararat.

His family have no idea why he would be in the Ararat area.

Mr Annett's disappearance is not believed to be suspicious and while he does not suffer
depression or any similar condition, his wife said he had been worried about work in the
days before he went missing.

"He's probably just wanted to get in his car and just drive," said Ms Annett.

"I think it was just a bit of time out."

She pleaded for her "beautiful, gentle" husband to come home and said word of his disappearance
had spread through Facebook and the lawn bowls community, in which Mr Annett was heavily
involved.

Mr Annett has short dark hair, hazel eyes and is 188cm tall.

He was wearing a grey hooded jacket, blue tracksuit pants and white runners but is
believed to have had a suit with him.

He drives a black 2010 Holden Calais sedan, registration XRT 488.

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