THE MOTHER of a woman who police believe was murdered has said she is terrified she may never be found.

Georgina Gharsallah disappeared without a trace on March 7, 2018. Last week Sussex Police said they now believe she was probably murdered.

Georgina’s mother Andrea fears her daughter was trafficked or killed since her disappearance, but was repeatedly told by officers there was no reason to believe she had not gone missing of her own free well.

Speaking to The Argus Andrea said: “I don’t have any confidence that we will ever get to the bottom of what happened. I fear we may never find her. I can’t bear to think over all the possible scenarios of what might have happened to her.

“I don’t want to believe she might have been murdered but it’s something that’s been in the back of my head the whole time. It’s aways there day and night. But then I think if something has happened to her why haven’t they found her.

“From the start the police kept telling me that statistically if she had been killed she would have been found.”

Andrea has always been convinced that mother-of-two Georgina would not have left her sons, now aged eight and nine, or committed suicide.

“The boys keep asking for mummy, she said. “They say they miss her. They know mummy is missing and we just have to say that we are looking for her to find her. We keep trying to live with some hope but it’s increasingly hard.”

In March Andrea begged police to search the demolition site at Teville Gate, but police insisted they did not think Georgina had been harmed. Officers have now searched the site using specialist equipment

“I am really angry. I have been saying to the police for months that I think something might have happened to her, and they kept dismissing my concerns,” said Andrea.

“I am pleased they now seem to be taking it more seriously, but I don’t have much confidence they will ever find her. I feel like they have only now said this is a murder enquiry because they have run out of other ideas.”