THE family of a man who remains trapped after the Didcot Power Station collapse have been told it could be another six months before the authorities recover his body.

Desperate to have her son Chris Huxtable's body recovered, Sandra Huxtable said she offered to go into the wreckage and find the 33-year-old herself.

He has been trapped along with John Shaw, 61, and Ken Cresswell, 57, both from Rotherham, since half of the boiler house collapsed on February 23.

The Huxtable family had been told by RWE, the owners of the site, they would be able to retrieve his body by the end of May.

But on Friday Mrs Huxtable, from Swansea, was visited by a representative of the company who said the rescue attempt "had stalled".

The 58-year-old said: "A very arrogant man came to my flat.

"He said they didn't have a timeline now of when they are going to get Chris out.

"When my daughter asked him 'well, are we talking six months or more?' he said 'probably' and could not give us any timings at all.

"We are all devastated. Chris's gran is terminally ill and she is devastated by all of this.

"I said I would go in there with men myself and get him out but they told me I would be arrested. I said to them they can't arrest me for taking something that is mine, Chris is my son."

Mrs Huxtable was told faulty robots, which had been drafted in to plant explosives to bring down the remaining part of the building, had stalled the rescue mission.

She added: "They said they were going to blow the building up by end of May.

"RWE has told us all along they don't know where the bodies are.

"But there is a Portacabin at the site and inside there is a map with three crosses so they have known where they are all this time."

Mr Huxtable's sister Natallie said she has horrific visions of Mr Huxtable and is desperate for him to come home.

The 31-year-old said:"I go out and have visions that I can see him. I think about his body trapped underneath the rubble."

Sarah Champion MP for Rotherham said the families' hope of their men returning home was "looking remote".

She said: "The search has stopped again, the area of the site that HSE felt could be safely searched has now been cleared, nothing.

"The families of the missing men have behaved with dignity and grace throughout but they have been forced to put their grief to one side while they have had to battle with the authorities to get the search off the ground, be consulted and even be kept informed."

Since the disaster more than 150 Didcot residents have signed the town council's book of condolences.

Mayor of Didcot, Councillor Steve Connel, said: "From speaking to people in the area it is clear the devastation continues.

"Everyone in Didcot has a personal connection to the power station as family and friends all worked there and it could easily have been a member of their families.

"We just want them out."

A spokesperson from RWE said: "Our contractors have now reached the 50m safety exclusion zone, that is in place as the remainder of the structure is currently considered unstable.

"Sadly, this means that, until the remaining standing structure can be safely brought down, we have restricted access to the recovery area. 

"We understand that the time it is taking to recover these men is deeply distressing for their families, and we are in contact with them.

"Our absolute priority is to recover their loved ones as quickly and as safely as possible."