IN THIS SUNDAY’S MUM AND DAUGHTER GO FOR OUR MOTHER’S DAY SPECIAL ONLY IN THIS SUNDAY’S DON’T DARE MISS IT! WHO WROTE MURDERED HOOKER SALLY ANN’S MESSAGE? Prostitute’s postcard revealed as fake 20 years on

NEVER FOUND: Sally Ann, and card said to be from her ( A POSTCARD allegedly sent by a murdered woman shortly after she disappeared more than 20 years ago is a fake, according to police.

Sally Ann John, then aged 23, went missing while working as a prostitute in Swindon’s red light district in September 1995.

Wiltshire Police said analysis of the postcard has led detectives to conclude it was not written by Miss John but its true author is unknown.

Police disclosed the existence of the postcard, sent shortly after Miss John disappeared, on BBC1’s Crimewatch this week. The postcard, which is marked “2 Oct 1995”, was sent to someone known only as “Clive” and purports to be from Miss John, who says she is living in London.

It says: “Dear Clive, Thought I’d write as I heard you’ve been missing me and that you were rather worried that something had happened to me. As you can see I’m in London now. But no one compares to you Big Boy. Love Sally xxxxxx”

A forensic expert said on that an analysis of Miss John’s handwriting had proven the postcard was a fake.

Miss John’s mother Lesley told the programme: “I thought something must have happened to her because she left all her things, everything she owned in the flat she lived in. She didn’t take anything with her.”

The night Miss John disappeared she had been working on the streets between the bus station and train station in central Swindon. She was last seen at around 10.50pm.

Her disappearance was initially treated as a missing person’s inquiry but police launched a murder probe in 2014. Her body has never been found.

The following year three men were arrested on suspicion of kidnap and murder and later bailed.

Police are offering a reward of £25,000 for information.