This concerns my son's aunt. Over the past few years she has suffered an untold amount of tragedy, her partner died, her mother and her brother died within months of one another and then her daughter (her only child) took her own life. I really don't know how she has coped over these years, she's sporadically kept in touch with me via phonecalls and facebook and we made a few attempts to meet since, however, each time she has come up with an excuse as to why she can't and one time when I went to meet her she simply didn't turn up. She has remained reclusive only contacting people via facebook to give birthday/xmas greetings and occasionally has "liked" a few of our posts. I don't have her actual address but I know the area she lives and vaguely that she lives in a block of flats, I have her Whats app contact number and a mobile number.
About 3 weeks ago I got a ping from what's app from this Egyptian guy (God knows how he got my contact) asking me whether I'd heard from Tracey as he was extremely worried about her and could I go round and check on her. I told him I didn't know her address so not possible, he explained that she hadn't posted on FB for a few weeks. I told him not to worry sure she's fine, as she often pops on and off.. He was very persistent so I called her mobile to find the number didn't exist any more, I tried calling her via whatsapp it rang and rang but she didn't pick up. I messaged her via whatsapp and msn messenger to find the messages had been sent but not seen. I contacted a mutual friend who said, like me facebook was now their only contact and that she'd not seen her for years, like me only vaguely knew the area she lives but had no address or phone number for her, but she "liked" one of her posts on March 10th. I messaged the Egyptian guy to tell him I'd tried but no joy but if I hear anything at all I'll let him know. He kept bombarding me with messages and I told him to stop doing this - I said I'm happy to keep the line of communication open so I'm able to give him some answers but I can't cope with my phone pinging every five minutes. He then told me that the last time he spoke to her which was march 10th (same day as the like) and that she was very ill and didn't feel right - I asked it what way and he said it was chest pains, I tried to reassure him that I'm sure she wouldn't sought medical help if she needed it. He said I should report her missing to the police! I actually called her nearest hospital just to see if they had a patient of her name but I was unable to get through. Between me and the mutual friend we decided that it wouldn't harm to call the police via 101 and give them what little information we had. The person I spoke to seemed extremely helpful even though I was only able to supply her name, her date of birth and the area she lives - They said they'd make some enquiries and get back to me. They got back to me within the hour to say there is nothing they can do anyway 'cause even if they knew exactly where she lives going round to the property is not something they'd do. I asked what now? And they helpfully told me that if it was a medical issue that I should go round to her house and if there's no reply to call the ambulance. Ok I can't do that anyway 'cause I don't have her address but if I did - firstly blocks of flats have intercom buzzers so you have to rely on somebody answering or waiting for somebody to leave the building so you can get in and secondly call the ambulance who could potentially break the door down and she's simply taken herself off somewhere to clear her head. Apart from persisting with trying to call the hospital there's precious little else I can do. I have told the guy that the police have got back to me yet but it all feels so helpless and hopeless.
About 3 weeks ago I got a ping from what's app from this Egyptian guy (God knows how he got my contact) asking me whether I'd heard from Tracey as he was extremely worried about her and could I go round and check on her. I told him I didn't know her address so not possible, he explained that she hadn't posted on FB for a few weeks. I told him not to worry sure she's fine, as she often pops on and off.. He was very persistent so I called her mobile to find the number didn't exist any more, I tried calling her via whatsapp it rang and rang but she didn't pick up. I messaged her via whatsapp and msn messenger to find the messages had been sent but not seen. I contacted a mutual friend who said, like me facebook was now their only contact and that she'd not seen her for years, like me only vaguely knew the area she lives but had no address or phone number for her, but she "liked" one of her posts on March 10th. I messaged the Egyptian guy to tell him I'd tried but no joy but if I hear anything at all I'll let him know. He kept bombarding me with messages and I told him to stop doing this - I said I'm happy to keep the line of communication open so I'm able to give him some answers but I can't cope with my phone pinging every five minutes. He then told me that the last time he spoke to her which was march 10th (same day as the like) and that she was very ill and didn't feel right - I asked it what way and he said it was chest pains, I tried to reassure him that I'm sure she wouldn't sought medical help if she needed it. He said I should report her missing to the police! I actually called her nearest hospital just to see if they had a patient of her name but I was unable to get through. Between me and the mutual friend we decided that it wouldn't harm to call the police via 101 and give them what little information we had. The person I spoke to seemed extremely helpful even though I was only able to supply her name, her date of birth and the area she lives - They said they'd make some enquiries and get back to me. They got back to me within the hour to say there is nothing they can do anyway 'cause even if they knew exactly where she lives going round to the property is not something they'd do. I asked what now? And they helpfully told me that if it was a medical issue that I should go round to her house and if there's no reply to call the ambulance. Ok I can't do that anyway 'cause I don't have her address but if I did - firstly blocks of flats have intercom buzzers so you have to rely on somebody answering or waiting for somebody to leave the building so you can get in and secondly call the ambulance who could potentially break the door down and she's simply taken herself off somewhere to clear her head. Apart from persisting with trying to call the hospital there's precious little else I can do. I have told the guy that the police have got back to me yet but it all feels so helpless and hopeless.
