Police seeking ex-girlfriend in missing person case

Australian police investigating the disappearance of a former New Zealand woman are seeking an ex-girlfriend of the woman's husband.

Surekha Engledow vanished in Australia in May 1996 during a camping holiday with her husband, Nicholas Engledow, and their three children. The family had previously lived on the North Shore.

Australian police are considering whether to extradite Mr Engledow from England to face charges.

Detective Sergeant David Timms of Queensland said investigators were seeking a woman named Jill who was a girlfriend of Mr Engledow's during the mid-1980s. She was believed to be a Maori solo mother.