Unsolved case · 2018
Also known as Gina Gharsallah
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Georgina Gharsallah, a 30-year-old mother of two, vanished after leaving her mother's Worthing home on 7 March 2018 to visit a phone shop. She was never seen again, and her fate remains unknown despite a police murder inquiry and a family-led parallel investigation.
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Suggest coverage for Disappearance of Georgina GharsallahGeorgina Gharsallah was born in Brighton in 1987 and spent part of her childhood in Libya before her family returned to England and settled in Worthing, West Sussex. In 2018, the 30-year-old mother of two was living with her mother in Worthing.
On the morning of 7 March 2018, Gharsallah left her mother’s home at about 9:30 a.m., saying she intended to visit a phone shop, the Jobcentre, and her father. CCTV recorded her entering a shop on Clifton Road at about 9:50 a.m., where the manager directed her to a specialist phone shop. This was the last confirmed sighting. She did not attend the Jobcentre or meet her father, and her phone and bank accounts have shown no later activity.
Her family reported her missing to Sussex Police on 17 March 2018. Police later treated the disappearance as suspicious and, in August 2019, announced a murder inquiry. A possible later CCTV sighting of two women in Worthing was circulated but never confirmed. Appeals through Crimewatch and Crimestoppers produced no public resolution.
Gharsallah’s family organized searches, public appeals, and an independent review of the investigation. Her whereabouts remain unknown.
Georgina Gharsallah is born in Brighton, Sussex.
Gharsallah leaves her mother's house in Worthing around 09:30; last confirmed sighting on CCTV at Clifton Food and Wine shop around 09:50; possible disputed sighting in Worthing town centre around 15:30.
Andrea Gharsallah reports her daughter missing to Sussex Police.
Case featured on BBC Crimewatch.
Police circulate CCTV footage of a possible sighting; investigation upgraded to a murder enquiry; Crimestoppers reward raised to £10,000.
Gharsallah's family requests an independent review of police failings from Sussex Police chief constable Jo Shiner.
Case featured in Series 3, episode 2 of 'In the Footsteps of Killers' on Channel 4.
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Missing person; disappeared 7 March 2018 in Worthing, West Sussex; case treated as a murder enquiry since August 2019.[3]
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