22 years on, a clue to murder

FRESH DNA evidence has raised hopes that the mystery of a schoolgirl’s murder could be solved – two decades after her death.

Lindsay Jo Rimer, pictured, was 13 when she vanished after buying cornflakes at her local Spar shop on November 7, 1994. Her body was found in a canal a mile upstream of her home town of Hebden Bridge on April 12, 1995.

No-one has ever been charged with her murder. But now West Yorkshire Police have sent new DNA evidence to be analysed using the latest techniques in Canada, after a publicity drive ‘helped generate some important leads’.

No further details have been revealed – but it could provide the breakthrough Lindsay’s family have been hoping for.

Her youngest sister Juliet, 23, was just 17 months old when Lindsay disappeared. She said: ‘Getting answers wouldn’t change the hurt but it would help bring closure.’

Inquiry leader Detective Superintendent Simon Atkinson said they were ‘waiting for the golden nugget that will crack the case’.