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Interpol searches for 21-year-old London student missing in France
Mark Blunden30.01.09
AN INTERNATIONAL search has been launched by Interpol for a London law student missing in France since last month.
King's College student Claire Louise Brady, 21, from Greenwich, last contacted her family on 14 December after travelling to Strasbourg for the "sandwich" year of her four-year law and French degree.
Interpol detectives, the Metropolitan Police and local French police believe she may have already left France.
Ms Brady's father John, 50, is flying to Strasbourg to hunt for his daughter and distribute posters. Family and friends fear she vanished after failing her exams and being forced off the halls of residence.
Her brother, Steve, 23, said: "Claire would always call, text or email. In her last message she seemed fine, saying she had bought a new bike."
Ms Brady had left in September on an Erasmus project, hoping she had passed her resit exams. But one week after settling into her halls of residence she discovered she had failed the resits and was no longer eligible for the course or university accommodation.
She then decided to immerse herself in French culture and secured a bar job, but then vanished.
Steve said: "She told us she hadn't passed but she had found a job and somewhere to live. Then over Christmas she didn't contact us, even on mum's birthday." Her Facebook account has no activity logged since the week before she disappeared.
Ms Brady's father, an electrical engineer, and mother Liz, a 49-year-old teaching assistant, had found her exam grade papers while searching for clues in her bedroom.
Jodi Thomas, 21, who worked at a French hotel with Ms Brady, said: "We're all really worried. She is quite fragile and can take things to heart. We really want her to just get in touch."
Ms Brady is a human rights activist who used her legal knowledge to help The Brokerage Citylink, a not-for-profit organisation that assists deprived young people to work in the City.
She also has a younger sister, Sarah, 19, and attended Chislehurst and Sidcup Grammar School and then Shooters Hill college. Ms Brady is a redhead, 5ft 1in tall, slim, and wears glasses. Detectives are appealing to the public for information. Detective Sergeant Lewis Chapman added: "Claire's relatives are concerned for her welfare as she has never gone missing before.
Anyone with information should call police on 0300 123 1212 or Missing People on 0500 700 700.
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I sincerely hope she comes back home. god bless
- beljamine, uk
This sounds like disappearances of students in the United States. They are seen and some have been on surveillance video then within a minute or so they walk away taking almost nothing.
Friends and family are not contacted. There is no activity on phones, bank accounts, or credit cards.
Some are found suicides, accident, or crime victims. But a very few recover and return in altered mental states. VisionAndPsychosis.Net points to Subliminal Distraction exposure as a likely cause. SD was discovered to cause mental breaks for office workers. The cubicle was designed to stop the mental events by 1968. Schools are unaware of it and do not warn students.
If a victim she might have amnesia or delusions of persecution and attempt to hide. She could be anywhere she could travel without papers.
The first such disappearances were noted in 1800's France. One man walked to Moscow from France.
- L K Tucker, Montgomery Alabama USA
