the 35 year old chef failed to arrive for work at york university on 18 march 2009. police believe she was murdered despite her body never being found. danny savage has the latest. claudia lawrence, a 35 year old chef who vanished in york i2 and a half years ago. police believe she was murdered despite her body never being found. today, in arguably the most significant development since she disappeared, police started searching gravel pits in countryside, six and a half miles from where she was last seen alive. while i m unable to disclose what brought us to this location, i would like to stress that the searches you will see in the coming days are just one of several active lines of inquiry being investigated and the north yorkshire police investigation team in our efforts to establish what happened to claudia and to identify any person
the 35 year old chef failed to arrive for work at york university on 18 march 2009. danny savage has the latest. claudia lawrence, a 35 year old chef who vanished in york 12 and a half years ago. police believe she was murdered despite her body never being found. today, in arguably the most significant development since she disappeared, police started searching woodland and flooded gravel pits in countryside six and a half miles from where she was last seen alive. i would like to stress that the searches you will see in the coming days are just one of several active lines of inquiry being investigated and pursued by the north yorkshire police major investigation team in our efforts to establish what happened to claudia and to identify any person responsible for causing her harm. claudia disappeared from her home in the area of york in march 2009. high profile appeals were made at the time by the police and her father,