THE father of a student nurse from Kent who went missing in Germany three years ago has spoken of his dismay at the lack of communication between the German police and diplomatic officials about the investigation into her disappearance.

Louise Kerton's father, Philip, is marking the third anniversary of his daughter's disappearance.

He said he had only recently heard that the investigation had been handed to prosecutors three months ago.

Mr Kerton, from New Ash Green, near Gravesend, is blaming the lack of communication on the German police and said it is not the fault of the English police that they have nothing to tell him.

Louise, 24, who lived in Broadstairs, vanished after being dropped at a train station in Aachen by her fiance's mother.

She was supposed to travel to Ostend before catching a ferry back to Dover where her fiance, Peter, was going to meet her but she never arrived.

Louise's family spent months looking for her but despite dozens of alleged sightings she was never found.

German police finally launched a high profile investigation into her disappearance in 2002.