Dion prays for scrap of news about mother

If somebody knows where Dion Chamberlin's mother is it would mean a lot to him if they came forward.

Two years ago today his mother, Sara Niethe, got into her blue/green Honda Civic and left her Kerepehi home, never to be seen again.

The police file on the mother of three remains open, her disappearance still unsolved.

Ms Niethe's oldest child, Dion, was 13 when his mother left.

The Herald reported this week that Dion, from Papakura, has received a Leaps and Bounds Award from the Child Development Foundation and Outward Bound Trust for the way he has coped with what would crush many others.

Dion wonders what happened to his mother but the 15-year-old, who is mature before his time, says moving on is a state of mind.

"No one would know how much it would mean for someone to tell police or whoever what happened."

Detective Senior Sergeant Glenn Dunbier, who holds Sara Niethe's file, said information on her disappearance still trickles in.

He said he was thrilled to hear Dion had received the award, given the hardship he had endured.

Ms Niethe, 30, went missing about midnight on March 30 after leaving her friend Mark Pakenham's house in Kaihere, 35km northwest of Morrinsville.

She was heading back to Kerepehi, about 10 minutes away.

"We have always told Eileen [Sara's mother] we would do everything we can to bring the matter to a conclusion and that has never changed," Mr Dunbier said.

The closest police have come to solving the case was a "credible sighting" of a car similar to Ms Niethe's on State Highway 2 the night she disappeared.

The car was seen driving erratically towards Ngatea, and then in the township itself.

Mr Dunbier said police had returned to the Hauraki Plains a number of times over the past two years searching for Ms Niethe after receiving tip-offs.

"We've been back to the river and the canals around there," he said, after boaties had reported hitting things submerged in the water, but nothing has ever been found.

Eileen Marbeck says it would be nice to know what happened to her daughter.

Tomorrow she will take her grandchildren Simone, Danielle and Dion and place flowers by the plaque they put up in the family's Kerepehi garden, as they did last year.

"What else can we do?"