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PostPosted: Wed Mar 16, 2011 7:08 pm 
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Has anyone else seen the poster up of a woman missing on Lamma? Does anyone else know anymore info. It seemed a bit vague. is she a tourist or resident? Alone or with friends? Should we be out in groups helping to search for her?


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 Post subject: Re: missing Woman
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Has anyone else seen the poster up of a woman missing on Lamma? Does anyone else know anymore info. It seemed a bit vague.


And you are being even more vague.

How about saying just what the notice did say, or ideally attaching a photo of it?

In any case, it's probably not a good idea to wander about at night looking for her.
If the police were concerned they'd be doing that.


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Lamma search for missing British woman
17-03-2011

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Missing woman Janet Gilson.

A search is underway on Lamma Island for a British tourist who has gone missing. Janet Gilson, 64, has not been seen since leaving her niece's home in Yung Shue Wan at around 11am on Tuesday.

Her niece, Julia Fareed, contacted the police when she failed to return.

Ms Fareed said it appeared that her aunt had left home in a hurry.


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Email just in:

"I just came back from a lunchtime hike (13:00 Thu, Mar 17) and while I was up in the Tai Peng-Pak Kok hills ran across a big group (about a dozen or so) of bright orange clad search and rescue people. Earlier in the day I heard a helicopter hovering in the area as well. They were looking for an older female British National who apparently went missing 3 days ago near the windmill. It seems the searchers were covering the ground all the way to Sok Kwu Wan."

Returning from town on the 5:20pm ferry, I saw these guys, plus another troupe of at least a dozen red-overall-clad police leaving from the YSW ferry pier in the largest police boat I've seen on our pier in years. It looked as they were not successful in their search.

Thanks, Alan for posting the photo. I've been trying to get this photo for our home page and this forum, after the niece called me directly asking for publicity on this website for the search.

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My daughter saw the police boat by the pier with the search group this afternoon.
Lamma-Gung {L_WROTE}:
Thanks, Alan for posting the photo. I've been trying to get this photo for our home page and this forum.

If they've sent out a search team the police should have more info.
-- How dumb are they not to have contacted you?

I found a bigger image here:
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http://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/201103/16/P201103160371.htm
Police today (March 16) appealed for information on a woman missing on Lamma Island.
Janet Gilson, 65, a British woman, who arrived in Hong Kong on March 6, was last seen in her niece's home on Lamma Island on March 15. Her niece made a report to Police today (March 16).
She is about 1.6 metres tall, of thin build and weighs about 45kg. She has a pointed face, short curly white and grey hair and wears glasses.
Anyone who knows the whereabouts of the missing woman or who may have seen her is urged to contact Lamma Island Police Post on 3661 1714 or any police station.

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Police search for British woman after mystery disappearance
March 17, 2011 Thursday
Clifford Lo and Simpson Cheung
Police will seek help from the Civil Aid Service to widen their search for a 64-year-old British tourist on Lamma Island this morning after her niece reported her missing.
The move comes after about 20 police officers with tracker dogs yesterday failed to find Janet Gilson on the island in a search focused between Yung Shue Wan and Sok Kwu Wan.
The niece, Julia Fareed, who has posted photographs of Gilson around Lamma and made inquiries at shops and piers, said: "There is no news, nothing at all ... nobody recognises her picture.
Gilson, who arrived in Hong Kong to stay with her neice on March 5, went missing after leaving the family home in Yung Shue Wan on Tuesday morning
"Went to Sok Ku Wan. Will have something to eat here then ferry to Aberdeen. I will call when can come back. Love Janet" was the last telephone message she sent to her niece on Tuesday morning.
After she had failed to turn up by yesterday morning, the niece reported her missing at the Lamma police post in Yung Shue Wan.
Fareed said she had a very good relationship with her aunt, who had devoted her life to the Salvation Army. "She is much like a second mother to me," she said.
Senior Inspector Kwok Chi-keung, officer in charge of Lamma police post, said Gilson appeared to have left the home in a hurry, without her glasses or usual shoes, leaving her bedroom untidy and a bathroom water heater on.
Kwok said it was not known whether she caught a ferry to Aberdeen on the day.


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i hope the police have taken into consideration that the last message in my mind indicates ms gilson had reached sok ku wan, hence the ' will have something to eat here' and with the aberdeen ferry in mind there is not much space between lunch and the ferry pier...therefore i hope the search went right over to mo tat wan as may have decided to go from there...also maybe a quick hike back over towards tung o ? our thoughts are with you julia

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koolajay {L_WROTE}:
i hope the police have taken into consideration that the last message in my mind indicates ms gilson had reached sok ku wan


I think that was a note she left before she left the house.


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Can't believe there isn't more activity around the village. Have seen policemen standing around outside their hut, but nobody is being stopped or alerted to any situation. I don't know the relatives of this lady, but are some of her friends helping organize some search. Maybe they would know the areas that this lady was familiar with. I would be willing to help search and i know other people who would be willing to help too!


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Alan {L_WROTE}:
I think that was a note she left before she left the house.


The article says it was the last telephone message she sent (I guess that could be text or voice message; sounds like text if it said "Love Janet"). She said that she would have lunch "here" which to me also implies that she made it Sok Kwu Wan. But I guess there is the chance that it was not copied down correctly.

There were about 10 police standing by the ferry pier tonight. Not sure if there is any connection. I haven't been around during the day, so I don't know what has been going on here but it is really a terrible situation.


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implies that she made it Sok Kwu Wan.


You're probably right. Which is pretty bad, as there is a lot of rough country easy to get lost in around there, and it's been cold and wet the last couple of days.

But the "leaving the home in a hurry" bit implies she had some purpose, either to go somewhere specific; or just to get away from something.


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The police and several govt. departments have been sending in dozens of people every single day since Wednesday to search for Mrs. Gilson all over North Lamma and all the way to Sok Kwu Wan, up to 40 people with dogs and even helicopters. I've seen troupes of all red, orange and black-red troupes of Civil Aid workers, Search and Rescue and even troupes yesterday like military-camouflage-clad Border Control units.

The police force and relevant departments seem to take this very seriously and have mobilised more resources than I've ever seen on Lamma. This is headline news in several papers (bottom cover of the SCMP again yesterday), including the Lamma-zine, and it involves a tourist, so they're trying their outmost to find her.

Initially, the first day, on Wed, the police was searching along the Family Trail to Sok Kwu Wan as the message indicated. According to her niece Julia, then a guy came forward saying that he'd seen Mrs. Gilson up at the windturbine around 2pm on Tue. So the search concentrated initially around there in the hills, Tai Peng and Pak Kok, including police dogs, before being expanded to Sok Kwu Wan again on Thu and Friday, with additional support brought in, even helicopter(s) and a huge police boat to transport the troupes.

Julia is thinking of organising a walk from the village to the windmill area this weekend, inviting anyone who wants to join to come for a walk to the windmill for a search. Not confirmed yet, but who'd be willing to come along, if she's going to do it?

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It would be helpful if the police could put up a map showing which areas have already been searched so that volunteers could help. I would be happy to help look for her.


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I wish I was in HK to help you all. Hoping for the best possible outcome and sending all my love to Julia.


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I would be willing to help.


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aparently and unfortunately she was found dead in the apartment right across from Yan Yan's - that new one. I assume that's where that lady was staying, with her niece?

it seems she was murdered by her niece's husband and was found under or behind the sofa. the stench probably alerted the niece or a neighbor.

the man, of sri lankan or maldivian descent, was on the ferry heading towards lamma when i was trying to catch the 6pm today. a bunch of police officers were present, some with riot shields and wielding police batons were waiting for the ferry to alight the central ferry pier. the ferry was stationary in victoria harbor for about 15 minutes until finally it alighted in the pier. police later arrested the man and took him away, "bagged and tagged".

r.i.p. poor lady. i'm quite shocked that this would happen in lamma. such an unfortunate sequence of events.


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Yet another black mark for HK Police. Under their noses all along and nobody thought to properly search the flat and he must have been a prime suspect with his history of violent behaviour.


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This is awful. Is it really true?

dory {L_WROTE}:
Yet another black mark for HK Police. Under their noses all along and nobody thought to properly search the flat and he must have been a prime suspect with his history of violent behaviour.


How do you know about his history of violent behaviour?


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These are all just rumours at the moment, not confirmed yet at all. But they're spreading fast locally, in person, by phone, even on Facebook....

The local police has just refused to comment about this case and forwarded me to Cheung Chau Police station, after consulting with their superiors. They forwarded me further and those guys (Police PR) promised to call back....

It looks like laputaquelepario was an eyewitness to an arrest tonight, but all the other statements and rumours are definitely not confirmed yet and will have to wait till tomorrow. This is such a serious case that I would not recommend to spread the rumours for now.

There are even rumours floating on Facebook now about SWAT teams and a gunman hijacking the Lamma ferry today. And there's just another text message going around, that the murderer was NOT the husband!

All we know for now is that somebody was arrested on the ferry tonight - with a bag over his head - but we don't know yet who for sure and why he was arrested and if it's connected to this case at all.

Let's wait for the official story from the police before spreading even more rumours.

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A dozen cops are securing the scene next door to Yan Yan at this moment.

Cops won't answer questions, but it's pretty obvious this is where it went down.


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