Update: Essex Police: “We were called at 2.20pm on 17 May with reports a woman was missing from her home in Harlow.

“She was found in a wooded area off Second Avenue and left in the care of healthcare professionals”.

ESSEX Police officers guarded an area of woodland off Second Avenue on Sunday afternoon.

Officers placed a car on the grass verge of Tripton Road whilst a van was placed near to the old helipad.

Officers then stood guard near to an opening to the Netteswell Plantation.

YH contacted Essex Police press at 4pm on Sunday afternoon but have yet to have a response (Monday 10am).