Police step up search for woman

Sybil Applequist was suffering from depression

Police are stepping up their search for a woman who went missing from Bridlington four years ago.

Sybil Applequist, 41, disappeared in July 2002 and was reported missing by her family after she failed to contact them.

On Sunday she should have been celebrating her 43rd birthday, but a police spokesman said they think it is unlikely she is alive.

Her husband John, from Ebberston, was acquitted of her murder this year.

At the time of her disappearance, it is though Mrs Applequist was suffering from depression and she did not take any possessions with her when she left.

Despite regular appeals for her to come forward, Mrs Applequist has still not made contact with police.

Underwater searches and public appeals have also failed to yield any information about her movements, and at one point police took the investigation to Europe, but no clues emerged.

Before she went missing Mrs Applequist lived in Cranbeck Close, West Hill.