MUM PICTURED HOURS BEFORE VANISHING

A NEW image of a Scots woman at the centre of a mystery disappearance from a Greek beach shows her just hours before she vanished.

- By Richard Elias

Michele Ann Joy Bourda has not been seen since last Friday when she was relaxing on a sunbed in Greece. Her husband told police he was asleep alongside her and when he woke his wife was nowhere to be seen.

Now, a new photograph of the couple has been released in a renewed effort to find the 59-year-old.

Mrs Bourda is understood to have moved to Crookston in Glasgow as her son is studying at a university in the city.

Her Greek-born husband also relocated to the city.

In the hours leading up to her disappearance, the mother had been swimming at a beach in the city of Kavala in northern Greece, about 150 miles east Thessaloniki.

She was later pictured with her husband Christos at a nearby snack bar just three hours before she vanished.

Mrs Bourda was wearing a darkcoloured swimming costume and had on a pair of sunglasses.

She is pictured chatting to her husband who is wearing a white cap.

The Greek missing persons' charity Lifeline Hellas has issued a Silver Alert following the disappearance.