Joanne search enters fourth week

Joanne's disappearance has been described as "out of character"

Detectives hunting for the body of missing Hull woman Joanne Nelson say she "will eventually be found" as the search enters its fourth week.

Although there have been no significant leads in the hunt, police say they expect to find the 22-year-old who was reported missing on Valentines' Day.

Since her disappearance, search teams have combed areas in North, East and South Yorkshire.

Miss Nelson's fiancé, Paul Dyson, 30, has been charged with her murder.

The grim task of finding Miss Nelson's body has been a large scale exercise for Humberside Police with police officers, soldiers, search and rescue teams, underwater search teams and the force helicopter joining the hunt.

Although it has been scaled down with teams targeting specific areas, detectives say they will carry on the search for at least another week.

Over the weekend, officers have combed land near Goole, Drax, Hatfield and Spurn Point.

The search for Joanne has covered large areas of Yorkshire

On Saturday, those trying to locate her body were given a boost when her parents Jean and Charlie Nelson met volunteers to say thank you for all their efforts.

A Humberside Police spokesman said the visit had given the search teams a boost and had helped reassure the parents that police were not giving up on finding their daughter.

He said: "I think that not only is it important for them, to give them reassurance and to see exactly what the effort is, it was actually reassuring and a real confidence boost for the officers.

"I'm sure seeing Charlie and Jean Nelson will spur them on even further.

"We also have an expectation that Joanne will eventually be found."

Detectives have renewed calls for landowners, farmers and walkers to contact them if they know of a site featuring a tubular steel farm gate, possibly with a number of green bottles close to the right hand side of the gate.

Behind the gate is is believed there is a short track near a copse. It would be set back enough for a car to drive up to it and would be off a surfaced road.