Joanne divers focus on new site

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

Police divers searching for the body of Hull woman Joanne Nelson are concentrating their efforts in the Wilberfoss area of East Yorkshire.

Insp Steve Page said the dive team had been given the task of combing watercourses around the village.

Officers have scoured areas near Brantingham, west of Hull, and Kilham, near Driffield.

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

Random sites

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

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 asked 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 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."