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Man bailed in Claudia Lawrence probe | Man bailed in Claudia Lawrence probe |
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A man arrested on suspicion of murdering York chef Claudia Lawrence has been bailed by police. | A man arrested on suspicion of murdering York chef Claudia Lawrence has been bailed by police. |
North Yorkshire Police said the 59-year-old, named locally as Michael Snelling, had been released on conditional bail. | |
Mr Snelling was detained on Tuesday over the disappearance of Miss Lawrence, who went missing in 2009. | |
Forensic searches are to continue "for a number of days" at relevant properties to the case, police said. | Forensic searches are to continue "for a number of days" at relevant properties to the case, police said. |
Police had been carrying out forensic examinations of Mr Snelling's house in Burnholme Grove. | |
A house believed to be his mother's was also searched in North Shields. | |
Case reviewed | |
Senior officers said there was "the possibility of further arrests to be made" in the case. | |
Miss Lawrence, 35, who lived in Heworth, was due to start a 06:00 shift at the university on 19 March but failed to turn up. | |
Extensive searches of the area were made, but she was not found and police have since treated her disappearance as murder. | |
Police launched a review of the case last year and have carried out new forensic work and searches of Miss Lawrence's home. | |
A fresh appeal for information was made on the fifth anniversary of her disappearance in March, which was broadcast on the BBC's Crimewatch programme. | |
Police revealed several new lines of inquiry generated by the review of the case and a fresh examination of her home. | |
Fingerprints had been uncovered using techniques not available in 2009, they said. |
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