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<\/p>\nPolice are searching a site in Leeds in connection with a woman’s disappearance 34 years ago.<\/p>\n
Patricia Hall, who was 39 and from Pudsey, vanished in 1992 and her body has never been found.<\/p>\n
Officers from West Yorkshire Police’s Major Investigation Review Team were searching a site at Fulneck in Pudsey in connection with the disappearance, a force spokesperson confirmed.<\/p>\n
“The search for potential evidence follows recent information received by the team and is being carried out on a speculative basis,” the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n
They added: “There is nothing to suggest any link to the Moravian Church, which owns the site.”<\/p>\n
Assistant Chief Constable Sarah Jones, West Yorkshire Police’s lead for specialist crime and criminal justice, said: “We are conscious of the understandable public focus that this activity is likely to attract in this high-profile case.<\/p>\n
“Patricia’s family have been informed, and we will be keeping them updated.<\/p>\n
“We obviously have a duty to act on any new information we receive but at this stage we are keeping an open mind.”<\/p>\n
Jones said officers “would welcome any new or additional information that could assist us in getting Patricia’s family the answers we know they still desperately need”.<\/p>\n
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Patricia Hall’s husband Keith was found not guilty of her murder [PA Media\/family handout]<\/p>\n
A cold case review into mother-of-two Hall’s disappearance concluded last year without establishing any new lines of inquiry<\/a>.<\/p>\n An inquest into her presumed death opened in April this year. The hearing was adjourned until a date yet to be fixed.<\/p>\n The coroner in that hearing, Oliver Longstaff, said Hall was last seen on 25 January 1992 “when family members spent the day in Ripon”.<\/p>\n He said there had been no sightings of her since, no “circumstantial evidence” that she was alive and she had made no attempts to “contact any family member or social acquaintances”.<\/p>\n “There is reason to suspect that Mrs Hall’s abrupt and complete disappearance is a consequence of her having died a violent or unnatural death,” he said.<\/p>\n Her husband Keith was tried for her murder but was found not guilty in 1994.<\/p>\n Listen to highlights from West Yorkshire on BBC Sounds<\/a>, catch up with the latest episode of Look North<\/a>.<\/p>\n More on this story<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are searching a site in Leeds in connection with a woman’s disappearance 34 years ago. Patricia Hall,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17,52271,52273,52272,52274,4575],"class_list":["post-162373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-canada","tag-patricia-hall","tag-pudsey","tag-sarah-jones","tag-the-disappearance","tag-west-yorkshire-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}