Wet weather slows police search

Officers cordoned off the entire search area from the public

Detectives searching woodland for two murder suspects have been hampered by bad weather.

Armed officers and dog handlers joined more than 400 colleagues combing Annesley woods in Nottinghamshire.

But continual heavy rain and dense undergrowth meant the search proceeded only slowly before nightfall.

Detectives launched their first murder hunt after Keith Frogson, 62, was attacked in a street in Annesley Woodhouse on 19 July.

Hunted men

Eleven days later newly-wed Chanel Taylor, 23, was shot dead at her Huthwaite home.

Our best shot in both investigations is to search here Supt Stuart Wright Notts police

Police are searching for her father Terry Rodgers, 55, in connection with her death.

Meanwhile, they have named Robert Boyer,42, as the prime suspect in the hunt for Mr Frogson's killer.

Supt Stuart Wright said: "We are not linking these two murders.

"What we do know is that the two people we want to speak to could be in this locality.

"Our best shot in both investigations is to search here."

He said about 450 officers were involved, both armed and unarmed, together with a 30-strong specialist team of search dogs.

"Some of the officers are armed, both of these men pose a risk. If they are here we will find them."

The search, which covers 2.5 square kilometres and involves two helicopters and began at first light. The entire area was sealed off from members of the public.

Newly-wed killed

Forces involved include Derbyshire, Lincolnshire, Greater Manchester, the Met, Leicestershire, South Yorkshire, and the West Midlands.

The officers were searching wood areas and scrubland known as Annesley Forest and the Plantation, close to the A611 between Annersley and Hucknall.

Terry Rodgers, left, and Robert Boyer are being hunted by police

Mrs Taylor was discovered by her new husband, Lee, with fatal gunshot wounds at the home they shared in New Street.

They had married just seven weeks earlier and her father Terry Rodgers, 55, from South Normanton, Derbyshire, who had recently moved in with the couple, had given her away.

Six days after the murder, detectives discovered a shotgun in the house where Mrs Taylor was killed.

Mr Frogson was found dead on his doorstep following a brutal attack as he left a local pub in the Nottinghamshire pit village where he lived on 19 July.

Bitter feud

The father of three was a well known member of the National Union of Mineworkers and had been heavily involved in the strike of 1984.

Police later named Mr Boyer, a so-called "scab" who joined the rival Union of Democratic Mineworkers, as their prime suspect in the case.

It is believed a bitter feud between the pair could have led to the death of Mr Frogson.

A crossbow was later discovered near the scene of the murder on Bentinck Street.