Two questioned in Rachel hunt

A body was found in a house in the Orchard Park area

Police in Hull searching for missing Rachel Moran are continuing to question two men following the discovery of a woman's body.

The human remains were found on Tuesday at a property at Nashcourt on the Orchard Park estate in the city.

The two men, aged 22 and 23 and both from Hull, were arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of murder, police said.

Miss Moran was last seen in the early hours of New Year's Day when she left her parents' home to walk the short distance back to her home.

Miss Moran went missing on New Year's Day

The discovery was made hours after police began searching hundreds of addresses close to where the 22-year-old lived.

The body had not been identified, but Rachel Moran's parents have been informed of the find.

The remains which were found as between 80 and 100 police officers searched the area where Rachel was last seen.

A Humberside Police spokeswoman said that as a result of those searches, officers found the body of a woman shortly after 1300 GMT.

The house has been sealed off by police and scene of crime officers, along with a Home Office pathologist, were due to attend.

The spokeswoman said: "Two men have been arrested on suspicion of murder and have been taken to two separate police stations in the Hull area."

The body was found a few hundred yards from the home in Saxcourt which Miss Moran shared with her boyfriend, Mark Shepherd.

Specialist officers

Humberside Police had never before carried out such an extensive search of homes.

They followed advice from West Yorkshire Police, who carried out more than 1,000 house searches when trying to find murdered Leeds teenager Leanne Tiernan.

Officers were organised into groups of three on Tuesday morning to begin the search of the estate.

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Map showing where she went missing

Since Miss Moran's disappearance, all open areas and water courses within a mile radius of her last sighting on Hall Road have been searched by teams of specialist officers.

Earlier this month, police found her mobile phone, Irish passport and her left trainer shoe in an open drain.