Public tip-offs drive Joanne hunt

The police search for Joanne Nelson continues to cover a huge area

Detectives searching for the body of Hull woman Joanne Nelson are following up tip-offs from the public as they comb wide areas of East Yorkshire.

Police have received information about locations where she may have been left and possible sightings of her car.

On Wednesday, searches focused on the villages of Brantingham, west of Hull, and Kilham, near Driffield.

Miss Nelson, 22, went missing on 14 February. Her fiancé, Paul Dyson, 30 has been charged with her murder.

Random sites

Another search team was visiting "random sites around the county", Humberside Police said.

Underwater search experts continued to scour fishing lakes and waterways throughout the East Riding of Yorkshire.

Miss Nelson's body is believed to be buried under branches from a pine or similar tree on open land near a wooded area somewhere in the region.

Landowners, farmers and walkers in the area are being reminded by police to contact them if they know of such a site featuring a tubular steel farm gate, possibly with a number of green bottles close to the right hand side of the gate.

Police information suggests that behind the gate 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.

Insp Steve Page of Humberside Police said: "At the moment we are responding to intelligence from the public.

"Information which contains several of the elements we are looking for, such as the metal gate or green bottles, takes priority when we decide what to follow up first."