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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/rights-appeal-over-missing-people.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Campaigners launch a drive urging more rights for families left in limbo by a disappearance" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/min-rights-appeal-over-missing-people.jpg" alt="Campaigners launch a drive urging more rights for families left in limbo by a disappearance"/></a></p>
<p>The father of missing chef Claudia Lawrence has backed a campaign calling for more rights for families left in limbo by a disappearance.</p>
<p>Peter Lawrence, 63, said families had no simple way to deal with unresolved practical issues such as property, bank accounts and insurance because it was impossible to prove whether a missing person was dead or alive.</p>
<p>Mr Lawrence, whose daughter went missing from York in March last year, added it was &#8220;absolutely necessary&#8221; for families to be given more support as he backed the Missing Rights campaign to give families the same rights as victims of crime.</p>
<p>&#8220;One of the things I have found over the past 21 months Claudia&#8217;s been missing is that nobody has any rights. It&#8217;s impossible to deal on a legal basis with the property, or even day-to-day matters like the tax or insurance, if somebody is missing,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>Missing People, the charity behind the campaign, called for a &#8220;presumption of death&#8221; act to be introduced in England and Wales, for banks to introduce standard mortgage arrangements for families of missing people and for insurance companies to freeze or take over a missing relative&#8217;s policy payments.</p>
<p>Mr Lawrence, from Slingsby, North Yorkshire, added that, as a solicitor, he was lucky in many ways as he knew who to contact and where to find help.</p>
<p>He was joined by missing Manic Street Preachers guitarist Richard Edwards&#8217;s sister Rachel Elias, who called for an &#8220;overall change in culture&#8221; to ensure missing people and their families were properly supported.</p>
<p>There were over 330,000 incidents of people going missing last year, the charity said.</p>
<p>It called for a missing persons co-ordinator in each region who would hold local services to account, a named single point of contact in the police for someone dealing with their case and for all unidentified bodies to be checked against missing person reports.</p>
<p>More support for families was also needed, the charity said as it called for a network of specially trained counsellors to be developed to support their needs.</p>
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