Private investigator to join search for Jacqueline

PALMA
MONIQUE Tennant is hiring a private investigator in her latest effort to find out what happened to her sister, Jacqueline, who went missing in the Sierra de Tramuntana last October.

The 42-year-old hairdresser from Croydon in south London, who arrived on the island yesterday, is also to attend a court hearing in Inca tomorrow to discover why it was mobile company took so long to trace calls made by Jacqueline on the day she went missing. It took five weeks and two court orders to get the mobile phone company to release this information.

Monique also hopes that these calls may be narrowed down.
During her short visit, Monique will put posters around the C'an Picafort area, where Jacqueline was working as a swimming instructor for the First Choice travel company before her disappearance.

Monique told the Bulletin yesterday that she had not given up hope of finding her sister.
She said that she would continue to try to visit the island at least once a month.
But because of the difficulty in taking time off work, she wished to employ the services of a private investigator. “I spoke to him today to see what help he could give if I'm not going to be in Majorca as much as last year,” she said.

On previous trips, Monique has organised searches of the area where Jacqueline was last seen. There will be no mountain search during this visit, said Monique.

Instead she hopes to keep Jacqueline's face in the public mind by getting her photos “back on the street”.
The idea is to try to jog people into remembering anything that might help pin down Jacqueline's movements on October 8 of last year, the day that she went missing. To this end she intends to put posters up around bus stops and taxi ranks.

Monique hopes that with the tourist season getting underway, there may be people that were in the area last year returning to Majorca who saw Jacqueline.

Jacqueline was an experienced walker and physically fit.
She was a sergeant in the auxiliary RAF.
The 45-year-old was on a career break and was working for the First Choice company in one of its hotels in C'an Picafort during the summer.
The day she went missing was her last day off work before she was due to fly home to the UK. Monique believes that there is a chance that something could have happened after she came down from the mountains.

A poignant date for the family is this Saturday, Jacqueline's birthday. “It's a difficult and emotional time,” said Monique who would normally celebrate with her sister.

Monique is continuing her efforts to keep Jacqueline's case to the forefront of people's minds in the UK and has done a number of radio interviews recently.

She has also been in contact with the Jamaican High Commissioner, Burchell Whiteman, who has discussed the matter with a chief superintendent from Scotland Yard. The chief superintendent will raise the matter with the Foreign Secretary, which she hopes will give added impetus to the search for her sister.