We cannot, and should not, let this week pass without remembering Suzy Lamplugh.

The agent vanished 30 years ago yesterday, in broad daylight and during an ordinary working day. She left her office, Sturgis and Sons in Fulham, London, to show a viewer round a property, and was never seen again.

The 25-year-old had her life ahead of her. She was officially declared dead in 1994, presumed murdered.

The Suzy Lamplugh Trust, a workplace safety charity, was set up in her memory in 1986, the year of her disappearance.

From time to time, the case has been reopened and suspects named, but no one has ever been brought to justice.

I personally heard Suzy Lamplugh’s mother, Diana, speak eloquently about the need for safety of workers, especially in the estate agency industry where at the time attractive young women would often have their desks set close to the windows of high street offices. I also interviewed Diana for a newspaper, and it was heart breaking.

Diana Lamplugh is now dead, gone to her grave with the case unresolved. Suzy’s father Paul is now 85, and expects to do the same. He has said he has little hope left of finding out what happened to her.

The Suzy Lamplugh Trust now aims to raise £30,000 for its Right to be Safe campaign, which educates young people about their safety at work.

Suzy left behind important messages.

Life, as she told her mother, was for living.

Equally important is that agents still actively remember, on a daily basis, what happened to Suzy and have procedures in place to make as sure as possible that all their own staff are safe, whether on viewings or being on their own in an office.

http://www.suzylamplugh.org/