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 | | Thursday, 25 April, 2002, 05:18 GMT 06:18 UK Missing Louise case reviewed  Louise Kerton was last seen in Germany Police officers from Kent are travelling to Germany to try to persuade the authorities to start a new search for missing student nurse Louise Kerton. Ms Kerton, from Broadstairs, went missing on 30 July last year after arriving at Aachen station on her way back to the UK. Her father, Philip, from New Ash Green, Kent, has said the German police are not doing enough to find his daughter. Mr Kerton hopes the visit on Thursday will lead to a criminal investigation. 'Trust no-one' The Assistant Chief Constable of Kent Police, Mike Bowron, and the senior investigating officer, Detective Chief Inspector Brian Roberts, will meet German police officers, the state prosecutor and the British consul. Mr Bowron said: "We have developed an excellent relationship with the German police and continue to work closely with them.
"The aim of the meeting is to ensure that jointly we are doing as much as we can, to request that the state prosecutor reconsiders applicatons for a criminal investigation and to seek the opportunity to review the case to date as part of our own review process." Ms Kerton had been staying with her fiance, Peter Simon, and his mother Ramana, at a village near Euskirchen. Mr Kerton said that part of the problem is the attitude of the German state towards missing persons. He said the state regards searching for missing people as an infringement of their human rights unless they were ill or depressed when they went missing. "It is standard practice here to iron out discrepancies and trust no-one or nothing until it has been verified. "We are hoping that once Kent Police have shown the German police their professional opinion about what they think should be done, the German police will be convinced by that and will use their system to ask questions that have yet to be asked." | |   See also: Internet links: The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites Top England stories now:  Links to more England stories are at the foot of the page. | |||||||||||||||||||
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