In a fortnight's time, Hong Kong businesswoman Carole Day will have been missing in the Philippines for one year and no one was any closer to finding her, her son said.
Day, 57, the widow of District Court judge Richard Day, who died in 2005, went missing on September 12 last year while on a business trip to Manila and has not been sighted since.
She was last seen by her business partner at an interior design showroom in Manila and was meant to leave that day for Cebu in the Philippines or Thailand, but failed to show up in either destination and, according to immigration records, has not left the country.
Her son, Jai Day, last saw his mother when he dropped her off at Chek Lap Kok airport on the morning of September 10. He has spent the past year in a desperate search for his mother, but it has all been to no avail.
'The Philippines' National Bureau of Investigation [NBI] has not been in contact since the beginning of the year,' Day said.
'From what I can gather the entire division has been replaced. I hope to perhaps contract a private investigator in the near future.'