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New appeal 10 years on after mum vanished on way to pal’
South Wales Echo
|January 29, 2026
MUCH-LOVED Cardiff gran Lorraine Ridout was 57 when she went missing from her home on the evening of January 31, 2016.
Lorraine Ridout, was 57 when she was last seen in Cardiff on January 31, 2016 Inset: The poster campaign following her disappearance
Nearly 10 years on to the day, no one knows what happened to her, or where she is now.
Lorraine was last seen at the Premier shop on Gabalfa Avenue, close to her home on Aberporth Road, before a final sighting on Heol Amlwch, Gabalfa, at7.40pm.
She had gone to visit a friend in a nearby street, but she never made her destination.
Now, her daughter has described how being left with no answers has amounted to a “life sentence” of “unexplainable pain'
Lorraine was a beloved mother, grandmother and wife and filled her family's lives with laughter and love, her family said.
This story is from the January 29, 2026 edition of South Wales Echo.
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