THE MOTHER of a missing 37-year-old Co Westmeath woman believes her daughter has either been abducted or is dead.
Athlone native Marie Greene was last seen at her family home at 9pm on Sunday. She is 165cm (5ft 5in) tall, of slim build with fair hair. Ms Greene was wearing jeans, white runners and a blue fleece when she disappeared.
Speaking at the family home at St Mel’s Terrace, Athlone, yesterday, her tearful mother Winnie Greene said: “I know myself that it is not like Marie to be out there without getting in contact with me. I know someone has her, she is either dead or someone is holding her and I would like them to think about me and let her home to me.”
“My husband is nine years dead and Marie has been very, very good to me. She looks out after me, she helps me, she gives me my medication and she does everything for me,” said Ms Greene.
Appealing to anyone who may know something, Ms Greene said: “I’d ask them please get in contact with the Athlone guards. I’d be very thankful to them if they done that for me because if anything ever happens to Marie I won’t live. It will kill me, I’m after burying my husband and my son and I won’t be able to put up with this, that is the truth.
“I saw her on Sunday night at 9 o’clock and she was in the best form in the world. She has two dogs and she loves her dogs, the little dog wanted to go with her, she said, ‘I can’t bring you’, she said, ‘I’ll be back in a few minutes and I will bring you’.
“She just walked out the door, she got a phone call at 9 o’clock and she walked out the door. She told whoever she was talking to on the phone that she is going out the door now. She went out the door and that’s the last I saw of Marie.”
Ms Greene rang Marie at 10.30pm but there was no answer.
“I got very worried, I got a bad feeling inside of me that something was wrong,” she added. By 3.30am Ms Greene decided to alert gardaí.
Family friend Darren Maughan appealed to anyone with information to contact gardaí. “It is out of character for Marie to leave the house and not telephone anyone.
“She always has her mobile phone on with her, she always has the phone turned on and if she’s even a couple of minutes late she always phones home just to let her mother know,” he said.
Supt Aidan Glacken described Ms Greene as a “creature of habit” who loved her mother. “She always returned home here where she lives with her mother. Her pattern was one that was repeated every day, so for that reason we are concerned for her welfare and safety. My appeal is to Marie, that if she is out there to please make contact with her family,” said Supt Glacken.
Anyone with information can contact gardaí in Athlone at 090-6498550, or use the confidential line, 1800-666111.