Parents’ garden is focus of police hunt for missing son
A POLICE tent has been set up in the back garden of a couple accused of murdering their disabled son.
Steven Clark, 23, vanished during a family walk near Saltburn Pier, Northyorks, in December 1992.
Parents Doris, 81, and Charles, 78, of nearby Marske-by-the-sea, last week confirmed that they had been arrested on suspicion of his murder, describing the charge as “absolutely ludicrous”.
Five police cars and vans, plus a crime scene investigation vehicle, were parked by the semi-detached property on Saturday.
Cold-case detectives are urging the anonymous writer of a letter in 1999 to contact them again.
Steven had a pronounced limp and other disabilities as a result of a childhood road traffic accident.
His parents have made public appeals over the years. They say
Steven went into the gents’ toilet but was not seen coming out and never returned home.
The couple denied killing their son last week, with Mrs Clark saying: “It’s just absolutely ludicrous. There’s nothing more to say, it’s surreal.
“It’s just too hard to believe really but we have to believe it and suffer the consequences.”
Cleveland Police Detective Chief Inspector Shaun Page said the letter “was sent through the post and addressed to the incident room at Guisborough
Police Station”. He added: “The person who sent it may know more that could help our inquiry team.
“They obviously felt compelled to write the letter seven years after his disappearance and I would like to hear from them again now.”