A MISSING South Gloucestershire woman was featured on national TV. 

The detective leading the investigation into the disappearance of Denise Jarvis has made a renewed appeal for information on Channel 5’s Vanished: The Hunt for Britain’s Missing which also featured interviews with her family.

Denise, 44, has been missing from Kingswood, South Gloucestershire, for more than eight months and police continue to appeal for the public’s help.

Senior Investigating Officer Det Insp Ben Lavender was in the studio for the live programme, presented by Dan Walker, broadcast at 9pm last night (Thursday 20 April).

Gazette Series: CCTV image of Denise Jarvis Denise’s mother Bernadette and sister Rachel also made heartfelt appeals, with her mum saying: “She’s not another person missing, she’s our daughter, she’s Rachel’s sister - she is loved. If somebody has seen her, we want her back, because we love her.”

Denise was last seen on the evening of Wednesday, August 3 in the area of Southey Park. That remains the last confirmed sighting of her.

Newly released CCTV images of Denise, recorded on the day before she went missing, shows the coat she was wearing when she was last seen in the park – a grey, thigh-length sleeveless coat.

Extensive searches of the area where she was last seen have also been carried out, as well as other intelligence and POLSA-led searches, some of which have involved the use of police divers while CCTV from the area has also been reviewed.

Police have been unable to locate any CCTV footage of her following the last confirmed sighting.

DI Lavender said on the programme: “While we’re carrying out land searches, specialist searches and with our dive team, we are preparing for the worst but really still hoping for the best, and we hope that this will come to a positive outcome for her family.”

On the CCTV showing Denise wearing the coat she was last seen in, he said: “It’s quite a distinctive coat…while clearly time has moved on, and she’s unlikely to be wearing the same clothes now, if anyone has seen that coat discarded or if she’s still wearing it, that will jog some memories.”

Anyone with information should call 999 or 101 quoting reference 5222186376