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Police Scotland officers launch fresh appeal for help tracing missing Fraserburgh woman with links to the Inverness area; move comes after a fresh sighting of Rachel McKinney (33) travelling on a bus from Edinburgh Airport to Dundee; she also has connections to Aberdeen, Guildtown and Cairnbulg


By Philip Murray

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Rachel McKinney.
Rachel McKinney.

POLICE have renewed their appeal for help tracing a missing Aberdeenshire woman with Inverness connections, after a fresh sighting was made of her.

Officers launched an appeal last weekend after growing 'increasingly concerned' for the welfare of missing Fraserburgh woman Rachel McKinney (33).

At the time she had not been seen since boarding a Perth to Dundee bus on December 9.

But officers have now established a more recent sighting of Ms McKinney, who is also known as Rachel Connor. She was spotted boarding a bus at Edinburgh Airport at 11.45pm on Sunday, December 15, and arrived at Union Street in Dundee as 12.45am on Monday, December 16.

This is now the most recent confirmed sighting of her and officers are appealing to anyone who travelled on this bus or who may have seen her to come forward.

Inspector Kerry Lynch said: "We would ask anyone who may have seen Rachel on the bus or who have spoken to her to come forward.

"We would also people who was in the area of Union Street or Shore Street in Dundee city centre in the early hours of Monday morning to think back and let us know if you may have seen her."

She is described as being 5ft 6in tall and of slim build with long light brown hair, bleached at the ends. She also had a recent facial injury to her right cheek and chin area. The injury is 'C' shaped and has a number of stitches applied.

At the time of the last sighting on the bus she was wearing a purple bomber style jacket, black leggings wit zips across the front and black trainers. She was also carrying an orange backpack.

Rachel is known to have connections in the Perth, Aberdeen and Inverness areas, as well as in her home area around Fraserburgh.

Insp Lynch added: "If Rachel sees this appeal herself, please get in touch with us or with your family or friends. We simply want to make sure you are safe.

"Anyone with information should call Police Scotland on 101, quoting incident 1782 of Tuesday, 10 December."


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