Police in Gloucestershire have arrested a person on suspicion of the homicide of Carol Clark, who was killed 30 years in the past after going lacking in Bristol.
The 66-year-old suspect was taken into custody for questioning on Tuesday, Gloucestershire Police mentioned.
Ms Clark was 32 when she was final seen alive, getting right into a automotive within the Montpelier space of Bristol on the night of Friday 26 March 1993.
She was carrying a black baseball cap, brown leather-based jacket, blue denim mini skirt, black polo neck jumper and a plain blue t-shirt on the time.
Her physique was found by a canine walker in reeds and undergrowth near the water at Sharpness Docks on the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal two days later.
She had been strangled and her neck was damaged.
A big-scale homicide investigation was launched by Gloucestershire Police after the physique was discovered, however regardless of intensive inquiries and critiques of the case, nobody was ever charged with the homicide.
Late final month, on the thirtieth anniversary of the invention of Ms Clark’s physique, officers from the South West main crime investigation group mentioned that they had obtained “new and significant” data, prompting them to reopen the case.
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In an announcement launched by police, Ms Clark’s household mentioned: “We are aware that the investigation into Carol’s death is being reopened based on new evidence and that new inquiries are being pursued.
“We hope that this investigation will permit us some closure.
“We are being updated by police family liaison officers and ask for our privacy to be respected at this time.”
Detective Chief Inspector Wayne Usher mentioned: “We are determined to get answers and justice for Carol’s family, and this arrest is a positive development in our ongoing investigation.
“There is a devoted group of workers engaged on this case, and whereas progress is being made, I’m nonetheless asking individuals to return ahead in the event that they really feel they might have data which might help us.”
Source: information.sky.com”
