The heartbroken sister of a woman who vanished over four years ago has paid tribute to her on her birthday - and said: “Hopefully, one day we will meet again.”
Tina Satchwell has not been seen since she left her home in Youghal, Co Cork, on March 20, 2017.
Yesterday was her 49th birthday and her sister Teresa Dingivan, who lives in the UK, revealed how it is getting tougher as time passes on.
Posting a picture of Tina on social media, she said: “Today is my sister’s birthday.
“She will be 49 and she is still missing.
“As the years go by it is getting very hard not knowing where you are.
“Happy birthday sis. Hopefully, one day we will meet again.
“Please, could you share her picture in the hope, one day, me and my family will find her.”
Gardai have carried out extensive enquiries and a major search of a Cork woodland the year after her vanishing, but no trace of her has been found.
Her husband Richard went to his local Garda station four days after Tina vanished from their home on March 24 of that year.
He told gardai he believed she fled with two suitcases but left her mobile phone.
Richard said his wife of 25 years took more than €26,000 in cash with her and she had taken the money, the proceeds of the sale of their house, from a cash box.
He claimed it was money they both saved up and now she had vanished into thin air.
In 2017, gardai examined two suitcases found near a clothes bank but DNA results later established they did not belong to her.
Richard has made numerous appeals for Tina, who he believes is still alive, to come home.
In an interview earlier this year, he said: “I’ll have hope, and I hope she is safe, even if she has moved on with her own life.
“I think she needed time, and maybe she found some form of happiness, but I don’t know, all I can do is hope.
“To Tina, the hurt and pain of you leaving the way you did can’t be put into words.
“But even though, I’m still willing to try to put things behind us and work through any problems.”
