Ghana phone calls about missing person are cruel hoax

GINA Kerry rates the phone calls from strangers in Ghana purporting to have seen her missing aunt and asking for money to be wired through Western Union among the crueller hoaxes she’s endured in the 20-year search for her loved one.

Her mother’s sister, Imelda Keenan, vanished without trace on Jan 3, 1994, but, two decades later, her family still clings to the hope of unravelling the mystery behind her disappearance.

Over the years, Imelda’s family has staged regular memorial events to mark the date of her disappearance and the birthdays she never got to celebrate. Such events are designed to keep awareness of her aunt alive in the public consciousness, Gina says.