Father's anger at Claudia silence

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The father of missing York chef Claudia Lawrence has said he is angry that repeated appeals have drawn a blank in the search for his daughter.

Two months on since the 35-year-old vanished, Peter Lawrence said he found it "incredible" that nobody had come forward with information.

"I'm angry. Somebody out there does know something and I just wish they would say so," he added.

Detectives are treating the case as suspected murder.

A reconstruction of the events leading up to her disappearance is to feature in a new Crimewatch appeal on 2 June.

The programme will show a re-enactment of a man and a woman who were seen talking at Melrosegate Bridge on Ms Lawrence's route to work.

Arguing couple

The woman had a similar jacket and hair to Ms Lawrence and the man was wearing a hood and smoking, police said.

Speaking at a news conference, 62-year-old Mr Lawrence said: "I find it incredible that a mature adult can disappear without money, without access to money, without a passport or anything else and nothing at all be heard for two months."

He said he hoped the new Crimewatch appeal would "persuade somebody to say something".

Police want to trace a couple seen on the Melrosegate Bridge

Police are also looking for information about a couple who were seen arguing at the side of a road on Ms Lawrence's route to work, and two men who were outside her home on 10 March.

They have also released CCTV footage of another two men spotted near her York home the morning after she was last seen.

Ms Lawrence was last seen near her home in Heworth, York, on 18 March and failed to arrive for her early morning shift at the University of York's Goodricke College the following day.

The investigation into the disappearance is now the biggest the North Yorkshire force has conducted since the search for multiple killer Mark Hobson five years ago.

Ms Lawrence's father, Peter Lawrence, has set up a website, www.findclaudia.co.uk, in a fresh effort to find his daughter.

Crimestoppers have offered an "enhanced reward" of £10,000 because of strong public interest in the case.