20/04/2015

Police Dig Up Pub Patio In Search For Missing Landlady

Police investigating the disappearance of a landlady in Cambridgeshire in 1997 are digging up the patio of her former pub.

Deborah Steel, 37, was landlady of the Royal Standard in Ely, Cambridgeshire, when she disappeared on 28 December 1997.

Police have said that Ms Steel's disappearance is now being treated as a murder investigation. Police forensic specialists are searching under the patio of the Royal Standard.

A 73-year-old man arrested in connection with the investigation has been bailed until 29 April.

(MH/JP)

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