£100,000 to end family’s agony over mystery of missing Lisa
Brother’s heartfelt plea as police hunt ex-boyfriend on the run
‘How can a child understand?’
THE brother of a missing Scots mother told yesterday how his family is being ‘torn apart’ by her disappearance.
As the family offered a £100,000 reward to help find her, Craig Douglas said he believed his 32-year-old sister Lisa Brown was dead as she had not been seen since she went missing from her home in Spain 28 months ago.
Spanish police have carried out major searches for her but have had no success and now believe she has been killed.
Yesterday Mr Douglas, 48, said he hoped the reward would help the family get justice for Miss Brown and her son Marco, ten. He added: ‘It would mean absolutely everything, the possibility to have some sort of normality. The pain of losing someone you love very, very much never goes away.
‘Most people can mourn those loved ones. They know where they are, they can go to their grave. There are very few families worldwide who are suffering like us without a grave, without any knowledge of where Lisa is.
‘This not knowing is unbearable. We need to know where Lisa is. We need to bring her home. Please help us do that.
‘My sister Lisa was a beautiful young woman, someone who was kind and gentle, but more than anything else she was a brilliant young mother.
‘This little boy went to school one day and came home that night to find that his mum had been taken away from him and from us forever. We can’t understand how anyone could do that to Lisa, so how can a child be expected to understand?
‘There are people out there who know who has torn our family apart. They are allowing those responsible to get away with killing someone, stealing a mother, a daughter, a sister, a friend.
‘Decent human beings don’t allow individuals to get away with killing someone, devastating a family and leaving a child without a mother.’
Miss Brown, originally from Alexandria, Dunbartonshire, had lived in Spain since the age of 18. She vanished from her home in Guadiaro, from which she commuted to her job in nearby Gibraltar, on November 4, 2015.
Her ex-partner reported her missing after she failed to pick up their child from school. The prime suspect is Miss Brown’s Liverpoolborn boyfriend Simon Corner, now on the run after being released from prison on bail.
Corner, 35, was jailed for three months in Gibraltar in May 2014 for possession of a weapon after a nightclub alteration. Following Miss Brown’s disappearance in 2015, he was interviewed by detectives but then fled the country.
In 2016 he was arrested in Denmark and extradited to Spain, where in April last year a Spanish judge released him on bail. Corner is thought to have fled Spain a second time around Christmas.
Court officials have confirmed Corner remains under investigation on suspicion of killing Miss Brown, with six other British citizens suspected of obstruction of justice.
Miss Brown’s brother revealed the family’s £100,000 reward at a hotel near Miss Brown’s home, accompanied by her sister Helen, 51, and mother Cathy, 73, along with Miss Brown’s former partner Tony Tomillero, who is now looking after their son, and the British ambassador Simon Manley.
Mr Manley said: ‘Few of us can imagine what Lisa’s family are going through.’
Anyone with information is asked to contact Crimestoppers.