Campaign launched to find NI woman's body

The family of a murdered shop assistant today launched a ribbon campaign to highlight their fight to find her body.

The family of a murdered shop assistant today launched a ribbon campaign to highlight their fight to find her body.

Lisa Dorrian vanished from a party at a caravan site along the Ards Peninsula in Northern Ireland four months ago.

Loyalist paramilitaries have been blamed for her killing.

But despite a massive air, land and sea search and a £10,000 reward her body has never been found.

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Lisa's parents John and Patricia launched the blue “ribbon of hope” with her sisters Joanne and Michelle.

Joanne, 22, said “Lisa has been missing now for almost 17 weeks and we are desperate to bring her home to be able to offer her a Christian burial.

“This is a basic human right which we are all entitled to and which we and Lisa are being deprived of.”

The free ribbon is handmade by Lisa's family and will be available from next week from shops in her home town of Bangor, Co Down.

Earlier this month the family released 26 white balloons to mark what would have been Lisa's 26th birthday, over the seafront in Bangor.

Lisa went missing from the caravan park in Ballyhalbert, 10 miles from her home in Bangor, Co Down, on February 28.

She left behind her handbag and personal belongings.

Graffiti appeared soon after accusing the Loyalist Volunteer Force, a splinter terror group heavily involved in drugs and racketeering.

Messages painted on the entrance of the village's Moatlands Estate read: “PSNI (Police Service of Northern Ireland): ask the LVF where Lisa is” and “LVF drug-dealing scum”.

Joanne said her family will be unable to grieve properly until Lisa's body is found.

Joanne added: “As time goes on it is getting harder for all of us.

“The pain never goes away. It is now 24 hours a day, every day.

“Please help us to find Lisa.”

PA