Yahoo Finance Sarah Everard: new CCTV footage of missing woman emerges
Watch: Police ‘increasingly concerned’ for woman missing since Wednesday
Detectives searching for a London woman who has been missing for several days have discovered CCTV footage of her walking alone around half an hour after leaving the home of a friend.
Sarah Everard, 33, has not been seen or heard from since leaving her friend’s house in Clapham, south London, at around 9pm on 3 March.
Her family have said it was “totally out of character for her to disappear like this”.
She left Leathwaite Road and is thought to have walked along the A205 through Clapham Common towards Brixton, where she lives. She would have been expected to arrive home in around 50 minutes, according to Scotland Yard.
The new CCTV footage, captured by a private door camera, shows Everard walking alone on Poynders Road at about 9.30pm, from the junction at Cavendish Road in the direction of Tulse Hill, south of Brixton.
The footage suggests she is likely to have walked through Clapham Common, but Scotland Yard said it is not known whether or not she reached her home.
Everard was last seen wearing a green rain jacket, navy blue trousers with a white diamond pattern, and turquoise and orange trainers. She may also have been wearing green earphones and a white beanie hat.
The Metropolitan police said an extensive investigation was under way, and that officers were conducting searches and house-to-house enquiries.
The force said that because of the case’s “complex nature and concerns for Sarah’s welfare”, its specialist crime command was leading the investigation, but that it was still a missing person’s enquiry at this stage.
DCI Katherine Goodwin said she “would like to stress that there is no information at this stage to suggest anything untoward may have happened to Sarah.
“The focus remains on returning her home to her family safe and well and that is our number one priority,” she said, urging anyone with information to contact the police.
Everard’s family said in a statement that they were becoming increasingly concerned.
“With every day that goes by we are getting more worried about Sarah. She is always in regular contact with us and with her friends and it is totally out of character for her to disappear like this. We long to see her and want nothing more than for her to be found safe and well,” they said.
“We are so grateful to the police and all our friends for all they are doing. We are desperate for news and if anyone knows anything about what has happened to her, we would urge you to please come forward and speak to the police. No piece of information is too insignificant.”
Anyone with information that may assist the investigation should call 0208 785 8244, via the Major Incident Portal or by calling Crimestoppers, anonymously, on 0800 555 111.
Watch the latest videos from Yahoo UK News
