An image showing what a missing teenager may look like 28 years after she vanished has been created on her birthday.
Carmel Fenech disappeared as a 16-year-old and anyone with information, no matter how small, has been urged to come forward.
The newly released image shows how Carmel may look as an adult today in the hope it will help reunite her with her loved ones, a reported by Need To Know.
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A spokesperson for the Missing Persons charity said: “Throughout this difficult time and beyond, we are thinking of Carmel’s loved ones.
“If you think you may have seen Carmel, please come forward with your sightings.
“Any little piece of information – no matter how small – could be key to reuniting Carmel with her loved ones.”
Carmel, who was also known as Carmel Pendry, lived in Broadfield, near Crawley, West Sussex, when she disappeared.
She was last seen on 21 May, 1998, in the company of a man at Camberwell Green Magistrates’ Court.
One of five siblings, her sister often sleeps in her car parked up in areas Carmel used to visit before she vanished.
As a teenager, she was said to have fallen in with a “bad crowd” and had become addicted to drugs. That revelation hit her mother, Deirdre Fenech, “like a sledgehammer”, she told the Independent in 2025.
Carmel would go missing for days, leaving Deirdre and her son to search for her. After they found her – or when she returned – she would always go missing again.
In the hope of pulling her away from those bad influences in her life, Deirdre moved the family to Crawley. But Carmel would continue to go missing, spending days in London, away from her desperate family.
Speaking in 2023, Carmel’s mother, Deirdre Fenech, said: “I need somebody to come forward and tell us, ‘Where is my baby?’
“Somebody out there has information.
“Just that one little piece of information could give our family some sort of peace.”
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