Police are appealing to the public for help in tracing a woman who has gone missing with her 10-year-old son from Dundee.
Mariella Sofia Gardella, 34, has links to the capital and officers say that the mother and her son were last spotted on Wednesday February 15 around 12pm.
The mum is understood to have originally been from Ecuador and has links to not only Edinburgh and Dundee but also Aberdeen.
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Officers have described her as being of average build, around 5ft 5in tall, and has short blond hair. Her son is described as being of a slim build, around 5ft tall, with short black hair.
Constable Jack Knight of Police Scotland, said: “We have been making enquiries since Mariella and her son went missing but so far no one has seen or heard from them. Local CCTV is being checked, and we are liaising with bus companies and our colleagues in British Transport Police in an effort to trace them both.
“We want to make sure that both are safe and well and so we would ask Mariella to get in touch with police. We’d also appeal to anyone who knows their whereabouts or who has seen or heard from Mariella and or her son since Wednesday, 15 February 2023.”
If you have any information, please get in touch with police via 101, quoting incident number 1281 of Monday, 20 February 2023.
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