POLICE admitted today that they fear Claudia Lawrence has come to harm - as more than 100 officers joined the search for the missing York chef.
Detective Superintendent Ray Galloway, the senior investigating officer, said it was “highly unlikely” she had been abducted by a stranger, and appealed for more information about any relationships she may have been involved in recently.
“There is no tangible evidence she has been harmed but my professional judgement is that she has come to harm,” he said.
He said there had already been an “overwhelming” response from the public to appeals for help in tracing the 35-year-old Heworth woman, who disappeared after finishing work at the University of York a week ago today. “We have had hundreds and hundreds of calls,” he said.
He also revealed that Claudia was a prolific texter, but there had been no phone calls or text messages since she spoke to her mother on a mobile phone at about 8.10pm last Wednesday evening, and he had no information as to her whereabouts after that time.
He said this meant that police were as concerned about her movements that evening as they were about the following morning, when she failed to turn up to work.
He said that CCTV cameras had picked up Claudia walking home from work on the Wednesday afternoon, but no images had been found of her walking back to work the following morning.
The detective was hosting a press conference attended by dozens of newspaper, radio and TV reporters covering a story which is now hitting the headlines nationwide.
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