Interestingly enough, it's rare that missing people make the news here. Local news sometimes, national news almost never, unless it's small children. Of course, we're a small country, with a lot of CCTV, so it's not easy to vanish. There was a reality TV show about the police officers tasked with finding missing people, and it seems that many are found fairly quickly.

That said, there is still concern that insufficient attention and coverage is given to missing Black people in general and Black women in particular. They are generally deemed to be 'less at risk' than white people.

An officer of my acquaintance cannot discuss individual cases but tells me that missing white people are likely to be wealthier, and also generally older and suffering from dementia, so more at risk. Young people, of any colour, are usually deemed more able to look after themselves. Young white girls are deemed high risk due to their popularity with 'grooming gangs'. Young Asian (Indian/Pakistani) girls are more likely to be reported missing by teachers, and it's sometimes because they've been whisked off by their families to be married off and/or have their genitals mutilated "So we get no help from the families."

But on the whole, healthy younger adults, of any colour, are less likely to be prioritised because they are at less risk. Until somebody turns up dead, of course.

Make of that what you will.

Two Missing Persons cases still hit the news occasionally. One is Madeleine McCann, who disappeared in Portugal n 2007, at the age of three. The other is Nicola Payne, an 18-year-old mother who disappeared on 14th December 1991 while walking from her boyfriends' home to her parents'.

No verifiable trace of either has ever been found, though both cases are still active.