Sarah Benford - presumed dead

[Doyle]

Three people have been arrested on suspicion of the murder of missing teenager Sarah Benford.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/northamptonshire/3207919.stm

[meggilyweggily]

Bumping for Sarah. I wish I could profile her on my site but I only do American cases -- I'd like to do foreign ones but I'm swamped as it is.

She has a sweet face. I don't know if I'm convinced that she's dead. I was just reading a book called "The Missing" by Andrew O'Hagen where he writes about British missing people -- not specific cases per se, but the phenomenon in general. Apparently there are a lot of people in England who are missing and don't know, or they do know and simply don't care. O'Hagen interviewed a girl who said she knew she was missing and had seen her posters, and didn't make a great deal of effort to hide herself, she just didn't use her real name and didn't call home. I wonder if Sarah might be in that faceless crowd. It's certainly better than the alternative. You can never give up hope.

[WasBlind]

Matches on yahoo (http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=%22Sarah+Benford%22&sm=Yahoo%21+Search&fr=FP-tab-web-t-1&toggle=1&ei=UTF-8)

UKMEC profile (http://uk.missingkids.com/missingkids/servlet/PubCaseSearchServlet?act=viewChildDetail&caseNum=NP01&orgPrefix=UK34&seqNum=1&caseLang=en_GB&searchLang=en_GB)

Printable poster (http://uk.missingkids.com/missingkids/servlet/PubCaseSearchServlet?act=viewPoster&caseNum=NP01&orgPrefix=UK34&searchLang=en_GB)

SARAH BENFORD
Case Type:
DOB: 19-Mar-86
Missing Date: 31-Mar-00
Sex: Female
Age Now: 18
Height: 5'7" (170 cm)
Weight: 0 lbs (0 kg) <----I guess it was unknown
Hair Colour: Blonde
Eye Colour: Blue
Missing City: NORTHAMPTON
Missing State :
Missing Country: United Kingdom

Case Number: UK34NP01
Circumstances: Sarah has not been seen since the end of March 2000 when she left home in Northampton. She is of slim/thin build with short hair that may be dyed blonde, but has also been dyed red before. Sarah has a self-made tattoo of a cross on the top of her left arm. It is now believed Sarah's appearance has changed to that of the second photograph.

ANYONE HAVING INFORMATION SHOULD CONTACT
Northamptonshire Police
Police National Missing Persons Bureau - Freephone 0808 100 8777
Or Alternatively

Northamptonshire Police, Contact during office hours, Tel: 01604 888540, Out of office hours, Tel: 01604 703320

*the country code for the UK is 44*

With love and HOPE, Lanie