06/08/2014

Reward Offered In 1994 Murder Investigation

A £20,000 reward is being offered in a new bid to solve the 1994 murder of 23-year-old Julie Finley.

Ms Finley went missing in Liverpool city centre on 05 August, 1994. Her naked body was found the following day in a carrot field near Wheatsheaf Hotel in Rainford, St Helens. She had been strangled.

The award is being offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person responsible.

Police say they are extremely keen to speak with a friend of Julie's who had contacted the investigation team shortly after the murder.

Giving her name as Tina, she gave police information about Julie's movement's on the night of her disappearance, promising to call officers back, but she never did.

(MH/CD)

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