The sister of a missing Scottish expat has pleaded for anyone with information to come forward following the 10th anniversary of her disappearance.
Helen Jordan, 59, insists that ‘many people know’ what happened to her sibling Lisa Brown, who was aged 32 when she was last seen on November 4, 2015.
The mother to a then-eight-year-old boy was living in Guadiaro in Cadiz, near to the expat haven of Sotogrande, which neighbours the Costa del Sol.
Her boyfriend and since convicted drug trafficker Dean Woods, who used the alias Simon Corner, was arrested on suspicion of being involved in her disappearance, but was never formally charged.
He was later handed a 12-year sentence in the UK for his role in an £8million cocaine ring in February 2020. In 2022, Woods absconded when he failed to return to HMP Sudbury in Derbyshire after being on day release.
He was arrested again in Germany in 2023 and ordered to serve the remaining 10 years of his sentence in a Category B prison, and has faced no further charges relating to Lisa. He has always denied any involvement.
In an online appeal on Monday night, Lisa’s sister Helen said: ‘Lisa my sister is still missing/murdered from 4th November 2015.
‘She lived in Pueblo Nuevo Guadiaro. She left an eight-year-old son who was her whole world behind and who sadly waited on her at school gates for her not to pick him up.
‘Many in the area of Gibraltar know what happened to her either by covering up her murder or disposing of her and after all this time still remain silent.
‘If anyone has any information please contact the Guardia and end our pain of not knowing, and give Lisa a decent place to rest.
‘Our mother sadly passed away not knowing where Lisa was and we would like them to be together again.’
Woods was interviewed by police in Cadiz over Lisa’s disappearance, which was first reported when she failed to pick up her son – who would now be 18 – from school.
He fled to Europe but was detained on a European Arrest Warrant at Heathrow Airport for ‘conspiracy to murder’ in April 2018.
He was extradited back to Spain, but police said they had a ‘lack of concrete proof’ and dropped the investigation into him.
Lisa’s family fear she was murdered and dumped at sea, but her body has never been found.
