A YOUNG Kent woman who has been missing for more than three years is to feature on a national T-shirt appeal.

Monday is Missing Persons Awareness Day and the National Missing Persons Helpline (NMPH) is using the occasion to launch a fresh search for Rebecca Carr.

Rebecca was 23 when she disappeared, on November 25, 2002. She was last seen in Beatty Avenue, Gillingham, where she had been staying with friends. It is hoped the charity’s Summer Search campaign appeal will generate sightings of Rebecca, who is a mother.

Her family launched another appeal for help in December, last year, but she has not contacted friends or relatives, not even her son, who was only four when she vanished.

The NMPH T-shirts will include appeals for seven other missing people, as well as Rebecca.

NMPH spokesman Ross Miller said: "The Summer Search T-shirt is about encouraging the public to help us find the missing and raising vital funds at the same time."

The T-shirts are available from the NMPH website www.missing persons.org, priced at £9.99 (plus post and packaging).

The charity is also asking people to donate by texting "missing" to 84010 (standard rates). A one-off return text, charged at £1.50, will benefit the charity.

Rebecca is 5ft 8in and of slim build. She has blue eyes and her hair was dyed blonde and shoulder-length when she vanished.

If you have seen her or know where she is, contact the confidential National Missing Persons Helpline on Freephone 0500 700 700 or e-mail sightings@missingpersons.org.