UP TO 100 friends and family of a missing Hampshire man are set to take to the streets this weekend in a bid to get a breakthrough in their search.

Kieran Smith has been missing for 11 days after vanishing from his family home in Fareham and his mother made an emotional plea for him to get in touch.

A tearful Linda Payne (pictured below with Kieran) told the Daily Echo she even checks her son’s bedroom at night in the hope he has come home.

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The 24-year-old went missing on March 10 and family say there have been few confirmed sightings.

Linda and husband Howard Payne, Kieran’s stepfather, remain on constant alert for phone calls and check the Facebook page set up to coordinate the search every quarter of an hour for updates or possible sightings.

And these are swiftly followed up by his friends as well as police.

A search helicopter has been up for five days in the last week, with officers on the ground searching in ever-wider circles from the family home, in Harcourt Road, bringing in up to 40 specialist volunteers to help.

Linda said she understood police had been scouring CCTV, speaking to Kieran’s friends, checking his phone records, speaking to fishermen at local lakes and contacting homeless shelters and hospitals.

His details have also been circulated to other police forces.

Mother-of-three Linda told how Kieran had to be brought down from a telecoms pole in Cosham by emergency services the day before he disappeared and she suspected he was depressed.

The former Neville Lovett School pupil has not contacted anyone since he left home and no one has managed to get through to him on his phone, which appears to have run out of battery.

He relies on a non-visible hearing aid which would have also run out of battery.

Kieran was last seen wearing a navy blue woollen hoodie top, navy blue T-shirt, grey jogging bottoms and white boots.

The bricklayer, who had been out of work since Christmas, left his passport and driving licence.

“We love him and we just want to know he’s safe – even if he doesn’t want to come home,” said Linda, 48, a part-time cleaner who also helps run an airsoft site in Ringwood.

“We’re just so worried about him.

“I’m just hoping for something, that’s all we can do at the moment – I just feel somebody must know something.”

She said the public’s response had been “fantastic”, with people who did not know Kieran well searching and handing out leaflets and posters.

“That’s the kind of stuff that breaks you down,” added Howard, 45, a site manager, who has known Kieran since he was six.

“This is something that happens to other people – you see it on television and think thank God it’s not going to happen to me.”

The Facebook site is called ‘Help Find Kieran Smith – Jibba’.

Anyone who knows where Kieran is, or has seen a man matching his description, is asked to call police on 101 or in an emergency 999.