FROGMEN have been called in as part of the hunt for York chef Claudia Lawrence – who vanished without trace nine days ago.
Members of West Yorkshire Police’s underwater diving team are this morning searching the beck in Hull Road Park, off Melrosegate, looking for any clues to help police investigating her disappearance.
The 35-year-old has not been seen since around 3.10pm onWednesday, March 18.
Police believe that somebody Claudia knows is likely to be involved in her disappearance and they fear she may have come to harm.
Detectives are considering the possibility that, after speaking on the phone to her mother, Joan, at 8.10pm on the Wednesday she vanished, Claudia went to meet somebody she knew.
But they are also not ruling out the theory that she went missing as she walked to work at the University of York at around 5.30am the following morning.
Her usual route to work took her from her home in Heworth Road, along Melrosegate, Green Dyke’s Lane and University Road to Goodricke College, where her shift was due to start at 6am.
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