Ellen Coss, Now 56, Missing Since 11/3/99 Ireland
Missing woman to feature on TV appeal 15/12/2005 - 17:54:45 A Dublin woman is among the people featured on a BBC programme aiming to reunite vulnerable missing men and women with their families, it emerged today. Ellen Coss, now 56, has not been seen since November 3, 1999, when her sister dropped her off at Manchester’s Piccadilly Station at the start of a trip back to the Irish capital. She never arrived back in Dublin. Her story is one of those being featured on BBC1’s Missing series, which being shown every week night for two weeks in the run up to Christmas. The programme’s production crew were given unprecedented access to the National Missing Persons Helpline, the UK’s only charity dedicated to finding missing people. Ellen’s brother Tom Brown said: “This is a chance to highlight Ellen and to make people aware of how much we miss her and what we go through day to day. “The National Missing Persons Helpline charity has been a fantastic support for all of Ellen’s family and I don’t know how I would have coped without them.” Ellen is described as 5ft 3ins tall, of slight build with long greying dark brown hair which she usually ties back. She was supposed to be travelling back to Ireland by ferry from Holyhead, but she never arrived home. Anyone with any information about Ellen’s whereabouts should contact the helpline on 00800 7000 7001 (from Ireland) or 0500 700 700 (from Northern Ireland). The programme featuring her will be shown on December 21 on BBC1 at 9.15am. http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=166092148&p=y66x9z854