Sascha Wil­son

Se­nior Re­porter

sascha.wil­son@guardian.co.tt

The fam­i­ly of miss­ing Pe­nal busi­ness­woman Christi­na Ad­sett has sought help from the British po­lice but her where­abouts re­main a mys­tery.

“I just want my mom back,” said Kel­ly Ad­sett, who re­sides in Eng­land and com­mu­ni­cat­ed with Guardian Me­dia through Face­book.

She said her moth­er dis­ap­peared two weeks be­fore she was due to re­turn to Eng­land on Sep­tem­ber 28.

Ad­sett was last seen in the yard of her home at Su­chit Trace, Pe­nal, where she runs a foot clin­ic, on Sep­tem­ber 11. Kel­ly said the fam­i­ly has not re­ceived sub­stan­tial in­for­ma­tion from the po­lice about the in­ves­ti­ga­tion.

“It’s been re­port­ed to the British po­lice and Trinidad po­lice. We have asked the Trinidad po­lice to speak to Eng­lish (po­lice) if they need as­sis­tance. We are in con­tact with the British con­sulate as well in Trinidad,” she said.

Kel­ly said she has al­so sent cor­re­spon­dence to the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter and has “emailed all the MPs in Trinidad” and got a re­sponse from one MP and the Prime Min­is­ter’s Of­fice.

She said: “The Prime Min­is­ter of­fice say they will help but they just for­ward in­for­ma­tion to what­ev­er de­part­ment. I have a let­ter from them, but no one keeps in con­tact. She’s just an­oth­er per­son in Trinidad that’s miss­ing (to) add to their list. If it was their moth­er or daugh­ter or fam­i­ly mem­ber (it would) be com­plete­ly dif­fer­ent.”

Un­cer­tain whether her moth­er would ever be found, Kel­ly said: “I don’t know any­more. I don’t seem to be get­ting help from any lo­cal au­thor­i­ty. We get told the same thing over and over, look­ing in­to in­for­ma­tion.”

Last month, her fa­ther Kelvin Ad­sett, a UK cit­i­zen, of­fered a $20,000 re­ward for in­for­ma­tion about his wife’s where­abouts, but Kel­ly said it has borne no fruit.

“No one has come for­ward, on­ly peo­ple who want the mon­ey pre­tend­ing they have her or have in­for­ma­tion, but mon­ey first, just peo­ple try­ing their luck,” she said.

She be­lieves her moth­er was kid­napped, but the rea­son re­mains a mys­tery.

“The po­lice re­port states that the po­lice was in­formed of a miss­ing woman from Pe­nal, and we ques­tioned how they got the in­for­ma­tion, from who, where it came from, but we get dif­fer­ent sto­ries. No one says ex­act­ly how.”

She said no one, in­clud­ing her un­cle who lives in Pe­nal, knew her moth­er was miss­ing un­til po­lice of­fi­cers from Port-of-Spain went to her moth­er’s house, and then told the Pe­nal po­lice about the in­for­ma­tion they had.

Ad­sett turned 61-years-old on Oc­to­ber 15.

Any­one with in­for­ma­tion on her dis­ap­pear­ance can call Crimestop­pers at 800-TIPS, An­ti Crime Hot­line, 555, or use the TTPS app or con­tact any po­lice sta­tion.