The family of a missing woman have made an emotional TV appeal in a bid to help find her. Denise Jarvis, 44, has been missing from Kingswood, South Gloucestershire, for more than eight months as police their search for her.
On the Channel 5 documentary Vanished: The Hunt for Britain's Missing, the detective overseeing the investigation made another appeal for information with Denise's family were also interviewed.
The live show, hosted by Dan Walker and broadcast last night (Thursday, April 20) at 9pm, featured Senior Investigating Officer Det Insp Ben Lavender.
Rachel, Denise's sister, and her mother Bernadette both made urgent pleas for help on the show, with her mum saying: “She’s not another person missing, she’s our daughter, she’s Rachel’s sister – she is loved. If somebody has seen her, we want her back, because we love her."
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Denise was last seen in the Southey Park area on the evening of Wednesday, August 3. That remains the last confirmed sighting of her. The clothing that Denise was wearing when she was last seen at the park is visible in recently obtained CCTV photographs of her taken the day before she vanished. It is a grey, thigh-length sleeveless coat.
A thorough investigation has seen officers complete more than 700 actions and speak to more than 90 of Denise’s contacts in the hope of finding her.
Along with other intelligence-driven and POLSA-led searches, which included some that used police divers, extensive searches of the area where she was last seen have also been conducted. Additionally, CCTV from the area has also been examined. Since her last confirmed sighting, police haven't been able to find any CCTV footage of her.
DI Lavender said on the programme: “While we’re carrying out land searches, specialist searches and with our dive team, we are preparing for the worst but really still hoping for the best, and we hope that this will come to a positive outcome for her family.”
On the CCTV showing Denise wearing the coat she was last seen in, he said: “It’s quite a distinctive coat…while clearly time has moved on, and she’s unlikely to be wearing the same clothes now, if anyone has seen that coat discarded or if she’s still wearing it, that will jog some memories.”
Speaking after the programme, he added: “We’re committed to getting the answers Denise’s family so desperately need and we’ll leave no stone unturned in our efforts to find out what happened to her.
“This will include continuing enquiries around her phone and communications data, as well as past financial transactions, and we’ll continue to speak with all known relatives, friends and associates of Denise.”
If you know where Denise is, or have seen or spoken with her after Wednesday 3 August, please call 999 quoting reference 5222186376, or call 101 with any other information.
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