‘My partner’s missing in India, please help’

THE Irish boyfriend of a woman missing in India has appealed to the Government for help in finding her.

Andrew Jordan’s Latvian partner Liga Skromane went missing on Wednesday.

Mr Jordan, from Swords in Dublin, has flown to south India to search for Ms Skromane.

The couple have been dating since meeting at a festival in Cork four years ago and she had been living with him in Swords. Her sister Ilze lives in Cork.

Ms Skromane went missing on a beach in Kerala in the south of India on Wednesday morning.

She had been in Kerala since February to attend a healing centre with Ilze.

Mr Jordan spent all day Sunday Vanished: Liga Skromane putting up posters, speaking to locals and doing interviews with Kerala journalists. He was also combed the area of the beach where she went missing, hoping to find some clues.

‘I need the Department of Foreign Affairs to put pressure on the Kerala police to do something. The only way anything will be done is with external pressure and publicity,’ he said.

Mr Jordan said he found it difficult to get the local police to move on the case.

He has traced Liga’s movements on the day of her disappearance. Ilze had gone to a yoga class and Liga went for a walk on the beach. Andrew found the driver of the three-wheel tuk-tuk that took her to the beach. She was then seen by two or three witnesses walking in the sand.

Liga had travelled to a healing centre in Kerala with Ilze for treatment. They were staying at Dharma Ayurvedic and Healing Centre in Pothencode in Thiruvananthapuram since February 21. She only had one week to go in treatment and was due to return to Ireland.

Mr Jordan said: ‘I just don’t think that’s going to be enough. I’m trying to get coast guard people to search. I’ve been going up and down the coast myself, hoping to find her. I have to accept she may have been lost at sea. People say to me that she may have wandered off but I know her and I don’t think she would just go off without food or money.’

Mr Jordan said the Department of Foreign Affairs was initially interested in helping but ‘cooled off’ once they heard she was Latvian and she is not married to Andrew. ‘I wish we believed in marriage because now I’d be getting more help,’ Mr Jordan said.

The Department of Foreign Affairs said that it does not comment on individual cases.

Last seen walking in the sand