Woman urged to call police

Sabrina disappeared without her regular medication

A woman who contacted police about a missing 20-year-old is being urged to get back in touch.

Sabrina Lewis who has schizophrenia and epilepsy, left her home near Saffron Lane in Leicester two weeks ago and has not been seen since.

The caller rang on Thursday evening from a phone box at the corner of Grange Drive in Glen Parva.

The woman said she had seen Miss Lewis who also has learning difficulties, on the canal bank a couple of weeks ago but left no details for officers to contact her.

Come forward

Underwater search teams have previously scoured a three kilometre stretch of the Grand Union canal in Leicester looking for clues into her disappearance.

Seventy officers have now been deployed to try and find her.

Her family and police are becoming increasingly worried as Sabrina is without her regular medication and is not capable of looking after herself.

Since her disappearance on 27 June, there have been a number of possible sightings in the canal area between Glen Parva and Kilby Bridge.

Possible sightings

Police are particularly keen to trace a white man believed to be carrying a stick and white plastic bag who was sitting on the canal bank on Lancaster Way on the day Sabrina disappeared.

They also want to speak to the occupants of a small red van parked in the Crow Mills car park on 27 June between 1900 and 2100 BST, as they may have valuable information.

Officers are continuing with house to house enquiries, and searching outhouses, sheds and gardens.

Earlier Sabrina's parents said they had not given up hope that someone may have taken her in.

Her mother Magdalena told reporters her daughter's total disappearance might mean someone knows where she is.