Police scaling down Claudia probe

A probe into the disappearance and suspected murder of chef Claudia Lawrence has been scaled down, police said.

Miss Lawrence was last seen on March 18 2009 and was reported missing the following day after she failed to turn up for a shift at work at York University.

Police believe the 35-year-old was murdered although no body has ever been discovered.

North Yorkshire Police said a “proactive review and, in some areas, a reinvestigation” was nearly finished. They added that, unless one outstanding line of inquiry relating to DNA profiling provided a breakthrough, the review “will start to scale down next month”.