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‘I can’t tell you how she died and I can’t tell you where she is’

Police confidence falters as dig for remains of missing Kettering teenager ‘fails’

NN Journal
Dec 01, 2021
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By Sarah Ward

Joe Banfield at the dig site yesterday

A renewed effort to find the remains of missing teenager Sarah Benford has not unearthed her body, leading the detective in charge of the investigation to say the two-week dig was a failure.

Officers and forensic specialists have been scouring the parkland site in Valley Walk, Kettering, for the body of…

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