The daughter of a British woman said her mum has not been seen for 3 months after vanishing following a supermarket trip in France.
The family of Stephanie Thomson, 75, have spoken about their agony after the British retiree went missing from her motorhome within the western region of Haute-Vienne in January.
She was last seen at Camping les Vigères in Le Chalard on January 29 before she went missing and not using a trace.
Mrs Thomson had been having fun with her retirement within the French countryside along with her husband Ken after moving there in 2012.
Her daughter Tracy, 55, from Redcar, said the past few months have been ‘unimaginable.’
She told the Sun: ‘The last three months have just been like a living hell. Not knowing where she is is one in all the toughest things to try to get my head around.
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‘I hope she is secure, but each scenario is running through my mind.
‘It’s torturous. Your mind never switches off.
‘I never imagined that I can be in a situation where I don’t know where my mum is.’
The pensioner is claimed to have returned from the shops along with her husband Ken, a former British Steel employee, who went for a nap.
When he woke up, his wife had left without her phone, passport or bank cards.
It led to a search operation by the French Gendarmerie, with dogs, helicopters and divers deployed to scour the nearby forests and lakes, but there was no sign of the pensioner.
Daughter Tracy said her dad had recently began chemotherapy for lung cancer.
The couple have been married for 56 years, and Tracy fears her mum may not have coped with the cancer diagnosis in addition to she led on.
She said she believes her mum can have gone somewhere by herself ‘because she will not be coping.’
‘Confirmation from her that she is okay would just be great, but I understand when individuals are scuffling with their mental health they find it hard to achieve out,’ she added.
Mrs Thomson is described as of slim construct with grey hair, and she or he was last seen wearing dark trousers, black or grey boots and a light-weight blue puffer jacket.
Gendarmerie within the Haute-Vienne area issued an appeal in February, saying the girl used to walk the forest paths aroundChalard and Ladignac le Long, but despite extensive searches, she has not been found.
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