{"id":10299,"date":"2018-12-10T16:41:52","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T16:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/?p=10299"},"modified":"2018-12-10T16:41:52","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T16:41:52","slug":"missing-sarah-wellgreen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/missing-sarah-wellgreen\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing: Sarah Wellgreen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah Wellgreen was last seen near her home in New Ash Green, Kent, on the<strong> 9th\u00a0of October 2018<\/strong>. The 46-year-old was reported missing two days later. Kent police are treating her disappearance as suspicious. Sarah Wellgreen\u2019s car was left at home and there has been no transactions on her credit or debit card, the only item missing is her phone.<\/p>\n<p>Sarah was last seen at her home that she shared with her ex-partner, father of her three youngest children. She made a phone call at 9.24pm and said she was going to have an early nigh, her phone was last connected to the mast at Ash Green that night.<\/p>\n<div class='besclwp-iframe-outer'>\n<div class='besclwp-iframe Facebook'>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><script async=\"1\" defer=\"1\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&amp;version=v3.2\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/searchforsarahwellgreen\/posts\/329029607877362?__xts__[0]=68.ARBLi_3oOZhT_5PqOxN84yQ6Ma2EGaCfV4QFfCsIr9M_lq7HSw-fOuN0BNIXMmHdNOVTBiSFm3F9r6x4MSfpKpjQQKsCshygiMpbaBmZje9IheboPfgYyoHn720Z3sVwbF-tlN0dOL7-FrFKVO9QTpuBeBP82VH4FEPkjfoueQTxC89O-8xKSYd3nYDVhAEsibjbBsmpbLbRol0QiGICUzWY6xcVE1Y99qDlLYqrnB19Jy_nmgs9MHYkZSk-oF-j9xQPzFiJiFEcrwqg5Y8ldKH8g9lO6CO7qvWjJLVqVpzVCeDRb_qT1I-jU1pOihlsVZ84UOc24fGxYbrysxfeDm5C_LQqhnPecRo-4M480zoJSctcwB_bHAjXuNWiw5oK2esZxB6lAMMRSZtdEh90D13-AHnHU352IWwB8oexCxK-N31Ys-oZCe00uNBMIm8487j9XK24o6vL-yAXb6Dbu96WY6ojQIm58cJD_FtPT6Ny2oM816o&amp;__tn__=C-R\" data-width=\"750\">\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/searchforsarahwellgreen\/posts\/329029607877362\" class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\">\n<p>Thursday 29th November 2018 &lt;&lt;&lt;PLEASE SHARE&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<\/p>\n<p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/searchforsarahwellgreen\/\">Search for Sarah Wellgreen<\/a> on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/searchforsarahwellgreen\/posts\/329029607877362\">Thursday, 29 November 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Sarah went missing on the morning of the <strong>10th<\/strong>\u00a0but a friend alerted her family on the\u00a0<strong><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">11th<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">of Octobe<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><strong>r<\/strong> when she failed to respond to texts. Her ex-partner Ben Lacomba, 38, then call the police to report her missing. A day later Sarah\u2019s son Lewis Burdett made a Facebook plea to inform people that his mum has gone missing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>On the <strong>16th\u00a0of November<\/strong>, Sarah\u2019s ex-partner was arrested and held for 3 days before being bailed until November 16th.<\/p>\n<p>On the <strong>20th of November<\/strong>, the \u2018Search for Sarah Wellgreen\u2019 started. The community and volunteers came together to search all roads and path tracks out of the Ash Green area in case she had fallen and unable to get back up. In four days a 2-mile radius was covered, including woodland. Kent police searched her house and other areas of concern; they assisted in directing all the search teams.<\/p>\n<p>On the\u00a0<strong>24th of October,<\/strong> the disappearance became a potential murder investigation due to the time missing. Community searches continued into villages, open spaces and woodlands within a 5-mile radius of Sarah&#8217;s house. Volunteer numbers were 350.<\/p>\n<p>On the <strong>26th\u00a0of October<\/strong>, members of the community that had licenced drones were able to join the search. The Facebook page was launched to help spread the word. CCTV and Dash Cams were asked to be viewed in case anyone had sighting of Sarah. The number of volunteers increased to 1300 people.<\/p>\n<p>On the <strong>2nd\u00a0of November<\/strong>, Sarah\u2019s home was searched of the second time and searched by Kent police search team and search dogs. The river Darent was searched by police marine team and roads nearby were cornered off.<\/p>\n<p>On the <strong>4th\u00a0of November<\/strong>, CCTV was released to the press of a hooded man by the river in Greenhithe, police are believed to be examining this.<\/p>\n<p>On the <strong>16th of November<\/strong>, Sarah\u2019s ex-partner was re-bailed until the 16th\u00a0of January 2019.<\/p>\n<p>On the <strong>5th\u00a0of December, <\/strong>Search is still being carried out and appeals are being made.<\/p>\n<p>Additional points that are said on the Facebook page to help answer questions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sarah was well, and the disappearance is totally out of character.<\/li>\n<li>It is not known what she was last wearing.<\/li>\n<li>Sarah\u2019s car was left at home<\/li>\n<li>Sarah\u2019s iPhone is still missing and cannot be traced.<\/li>\n<li>No present or past partner has helped in searches<\/li>\n<li>Sarah\u2019s passport is not missing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Detectives have studied more than 2,000 hours of CCTV footage and searched her home, but they are not any closer to finding her. The CCTV footage was turned off outside her house on the night she went missing therefore her last known movements are unknown.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #00ff00;\"><a style=\"color: #00ff00;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/searchforsarahwellgreen\/?__tn__=kCH-R&amp;eid=ARAofm-s5r_iwyz2d4ZXj4Fz8fkFwFSui2PHvbfD7i_j8DoQ48jI9c01R-9SnQHr3pXxEcTUDuAkVNbt&amp;hc_ref=ARROOZwxTQgrrI6UVCZhqT7HWCgB_nhG-pgR5QzDoah-ToF0d8GCFzUicJ3smLPqhUk&amp;fref=nf&amp;__xts__[0]=68.ARCP-ZzQBY09mQzL6ulxCW-KA3pvLbwrQRELvGpdQqRcPndXVOuvAiN8forHykXh3iBTtaHtbEUBzzsjcPrNmmtPi-i4A2JWP5md4_VQbAI87zjoLX8aAIQkhJw5JqUC3ak4xE4OVhagQbBblVHpJ08SCRhDQWW44gX3g4QX6y5PxZ2ZhCRAkgvZVh-LvvCAJUNGuni4Nj1QOgm7P0S3y2P4B3lYscZsPhTLeuioDx9uVcMxNFmah1m2XIOtliFXCKZ6g8XMu4M2rfoUN_3blezBsGX1guARcczJZ-0XyREmHO1QXybAH8blxFrqXAxc9ijZzvxpMQKQpyqyaqI\">A Facebook page called Search for Sarah Wellgreen has been set up to spread awareness, click here to view.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Her son, Lewis, said volunteer search parties had provided comfort and asked people to \u201cplease keep looking\u201d. Her disappearance is completely out of character.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Lewis Burdett has a message of thanks to everyone who is helping in the search for his mother, he says: \u2018Myself, and my family, would like to thank the residents of New Ash Green, and the surrounding villages and towns, who have all kindly given their time and to go out in all weather conditions to help look for our mum.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The last month has been a never ending nightmare and so distressing for our family. We would like to thank everyone for their kind thoughts and for respecting our privacy at this difficult time and ask that it continues.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018If there is any comfort to be found during this time, it has been through seeing the support the community has given in the search to find our mum. We would like to offer our heartfelt thanks to everyone who has helped with the searches, reposting social media appeals, putting up posters and sending in CCTV and dashcam footage to the police.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018We would especially like to thank the police for their continued work and also the six volunteer coordinators who have given-up so much of their time to help co-ordinate the searches and set-up the Search for Sarah Wellgreen Facebook page.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Thank you, once again, to everyone from the local community who has helped and is continuing to help find our mum. Please, please keep looking and re-posting the social media appeals. Myself, and my family, really do appreciate everything that you are doing.\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Kent Police are seeking to identify anybody who was driving or walking in the New Ash Green area between <strong>8pm<\/strong> on\u00a0<strong>9th\u00a0of October<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>7am<\/strong>\u00a0on\u00a0<strong>10th of October 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sarah is described as being white, around 5ft 7ins tall, of medium build, with green eyes and straight brown shoulder-length hair.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who has not been in contact with the police who was outside in the\u00a0New Ash Green area on the night\u00a0Sarah went missing, or has any information that may help the investigation, is asked to call Kent Police on 0207 158 0011, Freephone 0800 056 0154 quoting 11-0423.<\/p>\n<p>Alternatively you can contact the independent charity \u2018Crimestoppers in Kent\u2019 anonymously on 0800 555 111.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah Wellgreen was last seen near her home in New Ash Green, Kent, on the 9th\u00a0of October 2018. The 46-year-old was reported missing two days later. Kent police are treating her disappearance as suspicious. Sarah Wellgreen\u2019s car was left at home and there has been no transactions on her credit or debit card, the only&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[354,355,116,353],"class_list":["post-10299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk-news","tag-kent","tag-kent-police","tag-missing","tag-sarah-wellgreen"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10300,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10299\/revisions\/10300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}