The family of the 26-year-old Portuguese woman who vanished at Notting Hill Carnival have rushed to her bedside after she was admitted to hospital 25 miles away from where she was last seen.
WHAT HAPPENED?
Patricia Araujo travelled from Ashford, Kent to London last weekend to attend the event but had not been seen or heard from since.
She last contacted her family just before midday on Sunday, telling her cousin that she was at the carnival ‘having fun’ and would return home that night.
Now her aunt Claudia Sousa, whom Patricia lived with before moving into a shared house, said she was found and has been admitted to Surrey County Hospital in Guildford. It is understood she was first spotted by a member of the public.
WHAT SHE SAID
Claudia, who said she had been in constant contact with Patricia’s mother before she was found, told MailOnline: ‘I’m all the time trying to be strong for my family, because I have her mum and my mum (her grandmother) in Portugal and they are crying all the time. They were very concerned. Very worried.’
Claudia, 41, revealed on Friday evening that the family had been informed that Patricia had been located and was in the hospital.
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She said: ‘We’re going to the hospital now. We just know that she went to A&E and went to the hospital. We think that she is ok but we’ll know when we see her.
‘When the police called me I started crying. I don’t know how I didn’t fall over.
‘Her mother and grandmother cried a lot. They put their hands to the sky like thank God she’s found, and now let’s see what we can do for her.’
Claudia said the family wanted to ‘thank everyone for their concern’ and for ‘helping us by responding to the appeals we’ve made’.
