Police renewed their calls on the public to be an alert for missing 17-year-old Alissa Pitt, a Cyprus resident born in Britain, as she has now been absent since December 2.

The police stated that she is a Nicosia resident and described her as being about 1.60m tall, with a slender body type and orange shoulder length hair.

She was last seen wearing a black shirt, red jacket and black jeans.