Carvin Goldstonearvin Goldstone
27 December 2008
The family of Durban woman Kerry Winter, who has been missing in Dubai since August, spent their first Christmas without her this week and hope next year will bring them peace and closure.
In the Facebook web group, dedicated to finding the 35-year-old former Newlands East resident, her family said this was a very sad Christmas for them and they hoped next year would bring the answers they needed and some form of peace.
"Kerry, wherever you are? You are definitely being remembered by all of us. May God protect and keep you safe under his wings of love," was a message on the site.
The family was sent messages of condolence from across the world, sympathising with them as they faced Christmas without Winter.
Winter's brother Kurt, who has been searching for his sister in the United Arab Emirates and from South Africa ever since she went missing, said on Christmas Day they hoped God would open the mind and heart of Mark Arnold (Kerry's former British boyfriend being held for her disappearance) during this time of year and make him confess to exactly what he did to Winter.
"We pray daily for the truth."
Winter went missing on August 20 after she was apparently assaulted and abducted in her own car by Arnold.
She has been living in Dubai for the past seven years and was employed by ICE in Dubai.
Her disappearance sparked an international search.
Arnold has confessed to police that he beat Winter and dumped her in the desert but her family and United Arab Emirates authorities are yet to find the body.
Arnold is set to appear in court on January 15.
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