Boot poster appeal for Charlotte

The boot was found in the Ilfracombe area

Posters of boots similar to ones worn by missing teenager Charlotte Pinkney are being displayed in shops in Devon.

Police officers investigating Charlotte's murder hope the posters will help to trace anyone who bought similar footwear.

In June, police recovered a boot from the Ilfracombe area which is identical to the one worn by Charlotte when she disappeared in February.

They want to establish whether it belonged to the 17-year-old.

Charlotte, from Ilfracombe, disappeared after a party at the end of February.

Body not found

Although her body has never been found, Nicholas Rose, from Foreland View in Ilfracombe, has been charged with her murder. The 22- year-old has pleaded not guilty.

The boot she was wearing is a size five 'Samaur' ankle boot with side zip-up fastenings.

Police say they need to speak to anyone who paid cash for similar boots in north Devon between September 2003 and April 2004.

The boots would have been sold by Stead and Simpson or Shoe Express.

Charlotte Pinkney vanished in February after leaving a party

People who bought them by card or cheque have been found but a small number of people who bought boots by cash have not been traced.

Charlotte disappeared in the early hours of 28 February, following a party in Burnside Road, Ilfracombe.

A search was launched after she was reported missing on 4 March.

Further concerns were raised when she failed to make contact with her divorced parents on her 17th birthday, two days later.

Police launched a murder hunt when her handbag was found six days later in undergrowth near the reservoirs.

Ilfracombe's two Slade reservoirs, located not far from where she was last seen, were drained in April to help police divers complete their searches.

But despite a massive operation involving sniffer dogs and the Dartmoor Rescue Group, police have failed to locate her body.