Family’s plea to missing student

A major investigation has been launched by North Yorkshire Police to locate 25-year-old Kimberley Reavley, who was reported missing on Monday. Inspector Jon Asvadi, who is co-ordinating the nationwide search, admitted yesterday that concerns for Miss Reavley are “increasing every hour” that she is missing.

Her relatives released a statement yesterday which said: “Kimberley, if you see or hear this appeal, please come home or get in touch with us. We love you and are desperately worried about you. We need to know that you are safe and well. Please, please come home, Kimberley.”

The inquiry has been graded the highest possible as Miss Reavley has never been missing before and is thought to be without medication for serious health issues including diabetes. It emerged yesterday that officers have moved the focus of their inquiries to York and now strongly believe that Miss Reavley is in the Acomb area of the city.

The missing woman, who lives in Cromwell Avenue in Filey, stayed with her mother, Tracy Reavley, on Sunday night. She left her mother’s Londesborough Road home in Scarborough the following morning to go to the town’s Westwood campus of the Yorkshire Coast College, where she is a student. While she was spotted by a friend at 6pm on Monday, there have been no further sightings.

She is described as white, stocky and has shoulder-length brown hair. When she was last seen, she was wearing a blue denim jacket, a cream jumper, light blue trousers and white sandals. She was carrying a blue rucksack.