Family's search for answers after missing dad found dead in field

Dozens of police and SES volunteers have scoured a field in Sydney's west as his mother worries whether a fight led to his death.

Dozens of police and SES volunteers have spent the day scouring a field in Sydney's south-west after the body of a father was found.

Jayden Harwood, 20, vanished from a property at Ingleburn in March and his family are demanding answers.

Yesterday morning his body was found in a field in Minto.

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The mother of a Sydney man missing for two and a half months has issued an emotional plea for information, as speculation mounts he may have met with foul play.Jayden Harwood, a 20-year-old father of two, was last seen walking down Sackville Street in Ingleburn on March 1, while staying at his girlfriend's parents' place.

The 20-year-old father of two was first reported missing on March 1.

He was last seen walking down Sackville Street in Ingleburn asking for help before borrowing a phone to call his step father.

He told him he was in a fight and needed help.

"My concern is has that fight led to my son's death," mother Alanai-Brie Wallace said.

Among the people searching for him was Brittany Ellis

"I was standing 950 metres away from him. We were close I think that's the hardest part knowing how close," she said.

"How he got here, how no one seen him get here."

She laid flowers on behalf of Harwood's mother.

A body has been found in Sydney as the search for missing father Jayden Harwood continues.

Officers and SES volunteers were searching the area looking for answers.

His mother appealed for help.

"If you know something come forward. If you've done something, you will be held accountable," she said.

"I will do all I can to keep his name alive in his little girls' lives."

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