Police and family have issued an appeal to try find a Welling student who has been missing for almost a week.

Jer Le Leow, a computer science student at Queen Mary College, has been missing from since January 12.

Jer, 23, is of Chinese descent, and at the time of his disappearance was wearing a black hooded coat, khaki coloured trousers and black trainers with a red stripe at the heel.

His family have said they are particularly worried about his vulnerability as Jer is timid and frail, autistic and diagnosed with depression. He is 165 cm tall and weighs only 46 kg.

His family have said that he doesn't have many friends and that they have contacted the few they know of, but that he was a very active member of the online game World of Tanks community under the id ‘ninjafighter123’.

Anyone with information on Jer's whereabouts are urged to contact the police on 101.