Sarjit Kaur Mann

not impossible. Her case has had some fresh publicity this year and I believe it to be very important to cover. This episode is about a missing person case and so does not contain any descriptions of violence. However, listener discretion is always advised. The city of Birmingham has historically been a hub of migration throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries due to the Industrial Revolution and the large amount of

job opportunities that were available during this time. Post war, during the nineteen sixties and nineteen seventies, immigration from areas which during that time were called the New Commonwealth began to increase. This included many people from the Caribbean in Asia, namely India and Pakistan. This is reflected within the diverse nature of Birmingham today and its heritage in Asian cuisine

and culture. During the nineteen seventies, Sergik korp Man and her family migrated from India to Birmingham for many of the reasons that lots of other immigrants had settled there. Sergei was a teenager when she arrived in the UK, and by all accounts, she was described as an outstanding student who gained a place to study maths at Birmingham University. She was making fantastic progress with her studies and was known to be a very hard worker. She was also

described as being reserved and sensible. The move to Birmingham was certainly something that the family appeared to be benefiting from. On September eighteenth, nineteen seventy six, Sergeant made the decision to accompany her brother and sister in law on their trip to France. They decided to do a road trip around the country, and in the days that followed they made their way to the south of France. By September twenty second, four days into their trip, they made their

way to a beach. The group were having a fantastic time and Sergeant, who was twenty especially enjoyed the experience. She reportedly made friends with three women who she met on the beach. Serget's brother and sister in law made the choice to go home two days later, on the twenty fourth of September. When they presented Sergeant with this plan, she decided that she didn't want to return home with them and that she wanted to stay a bit longer

to do some sight seeing. She chose to delay her return back to the UK until the twenty seventh of September. They didn't seem to be anything unusual or odd about this request, as Sergeant was twenty years old and a university student who wanted to experience the world and visit new places. Sergi's brother and sister in law left on the twenty fourth as planned and went back to the UK, expecting that they would wait for Sergeant when she returned

on the twenty seventh. The twenty seventh of September arrived, but instead of Sergeant back home, the family received something else. Instead. It was a phone call. The phone call was made by a woman who called herself Jane. This woman gave the family some horrific news, told them that Sergeant had drowned on a beach and that she wouldn't be coming back. This must have been an awful phone call to receive, as well as being very confusing. Who was this Jane

and how did she know that Sergeant had drowned? How did she know to contact them? And why had the police not spoken to them about this? This would have seemed like a random phone call if not for the fact that Sergeant hadn't returned when she said she was going to, and she did not return in the days, months or years after either. It was as though Sergeant had disappeared into thin air. A description of Sergeant was distributed in the hope that someone would remember her, either

in France or the UK. She was described as being slim build, around five feet one inches tall, with long, straight black hair, and she possibly would glasses which were silver and hexagonal. She is also believed to have worn a stainless steel, multi colored pendant, silver bangle, and wore

size ten to twelve clothes. At the time in nineteen seventy six, tracing people was extremely difficult and investigators seemed to do what they could with the information, but they were unable to trace whether the phone call to the family had been made or who might have made it. There seemed to be no trace of Sergeant then or

during the time after nineteen seventy six. It wasn't until twenty twenty three when PC Sean Reeve from West Midlands Police opened up Sergeant's unsolved case and began to look through it. He was interested in Sergeant's disappearance and decided to explore everything that he could with fresh eyes almost fifty years after she went missing. He tried to find any proof of life for Sergeant, including looking through police records,

doctors records, hospital admissions and phone book records. They looked to see if she had a presence on social media and also liaise with the National Crime Agency. PC Reeve said anything that anyone could think of in terms of proof of life we covered. We've made hundreds of inquiries with the hope that she's alive, that she started a new life elsewhere. Inquiries have taken us to countries around

the world. We know she hasn't contacted family since if she has passed away, we are very much relying on DNA, relying on the body to be recovered, but that hasn't been done yet. The other thing that hindered the West Midlands Investigation was the fact that the only picture they had of Sergeant was a black and white photocopy of her, which was such a poor quality that they could barely

make out any features. In twenty twenty four, pc Reeve reached out to Serget's family, her brothers and her nephew, who provided him with the clearer image of Sergeant to distribute. Pc Reeve said it was terrible quality. It was really grainy and looked nothing like her, but it was the image we had and there was little we could do to retrieve new photos as this was going back to

the seventies. By putting this enhanced photo out, we're hoping someone who recognizes Sergeant will trigger old memories in people who knew her. It's clear that pc Reeve feels very passionately about Sergeant's case and wants her to be found after all these years. He said, Sergeant's case has remained unsolved for nearly fifty years. One of my main goals is to make as many people aware of it as possible.

This is one of West Midland Police's longest unsolved cases and while we don't know what happened to Sergeant, she deserves to have people looking for her. My aim is to bring that closure to her remaining family. So much time has passed with Sergeant still missing. She would be sixty nine years old now if she was still alive, and so if she has chosen to make a new life for herself, those that knew her may not know that she's even missing. She will have changed a lot

since then. However, someone may recognize some features or some aspects of her story. Is there any truth to the story that Sergeant drowned on a beach? Or was this a hoax call? If it was, why was it made? There are so many aspects of the case we don't know about, but like PC Reeve, I believe her story

is so important to be told. If you know anything about the disappearance of Sergeic kor Man, please contact the Missing People Charity using the link in the show notes, or contact the Missing Person's Investigation Unit on zero one two one six two six seven zero zero three. Thank you for listening to day seven of twelve Days of Missing Person episode in December. Stay tuned for day eight

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