Detectives investigating the disappearance of Hanwell schoolgirl Alice Gross will appear on Crimewatch tonight to appeal for the public's help.

The programme will be broadcast on BBC1 at 10.40pm (go here for iPlayer). 

Detective Chief Inspector Andy Chalmers will be live in the studio using CCTV images to show Alice’s last known movements on Thursday, August 28, between 1pm when she left home and 4.26pm when she walked along Trumpers Way, back towards Hanwell.



Despite numerous public appeals as yet detectives have no confirmed sightings of Alice after 1626 that day. 

Alice is white, 5ft 2 ins tall and of very slim build with shoulder-length, light brown hair. When she left home that day she was wearing dark blue jeans,a grey top, and tartan framed glasses. She was carrying a dark rucksack, and wearing denim blue ‘Vans’ shoes, these shoes were in her rucksack when it was found by police on 2 September.

Her distraught family have made an audio appeal to mark two weeks since she went missing.

Detective Chief Inspector Chalmers said: “Over two weeks ago now Alice left home, just as normal, and went for a walk. She has not been seen since.

“The response so far from the public has been great, but as yet we have no confirmed sightings of Alice after 1630hrs that day.

“I am really keen to trace Alice’s phone, which I know has not been used since late afternoon on the day she was last seen. It is white iPhone 4S, with distinctive cracked rear case that Alice had decorated with marker pen. If you saw, or currently have Alice’s phone please get in touch.

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“A couple have come forward to tell us that they saw Alice’s bag on the evening of Thursday, 28 August, at about 2015hrs, on the footpath that runs besides the River Brent between Hanwell Bridge and the Grand Union Canal. They didn’t move the bag or look inside it. The bag was seen close to where the builders saw it on the following day but the bag was on the path rather than in the undergrowth. So I’m continuing to ask for anyone else who may have seen Alice’s rucksack between this time and when officers found it on September 2.

“Alice’s family are devastated. They think about her constantly. If you have any information that can help us bring Alice back to her family, no matter how small or trivial it may seem to you, please call us.”

Hanwell has been united in the appeal to find Alice as yellow ribbons and a poster campaign cover the area.

Anyone with any information is asked to contact the investigation team on 020 8358 0100, or call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.