The family of a missing woman is pleading for her to tell them she is alive and safe.

Dominique McDonald, 25, vanished after returning from a trip to Spain on December 17.

She was recorded on CCTV boarding a train from Gatwick to Brighton.

In a phonecall on December 18 she told a nurse she was back at her Lewes Road flat, but she has not been seen since.

Police have told her family Dominique has made no withdrawals from her bank account.

Neither her mobile phone or email account are believed to have been used and her family is beginning to fear the worst.

Her father, James McDonald, said: “As a family we just want to know that she’s safe and that she’s actually alive.”

Dominique suffered a breakdown last year and moved to Brighton from Reading.

She was being treated by Sussex Partnership, which runs mental health services, when she went missing.

She was on medication, which has to be renewed by a doctor and which has now run out.

She has not had any direct contact with her family since moving to Brighton but they have checked on her welfare from a distance by speaking to her friends.

Mr McDonald said: “If she is not on her medication, that really does concern me as a parent.

“She could get into a position where she would be very vulnerable.

“We appreciate she doesn’t really want to talk to us, we just want to know that she is safe.” Anyone with information about her whereabouts is asked to call Sussex Police on 0845 6070999.