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| Swindon dig: Police search at Christopher Halliwell's former home | Swindon dig: Police search at Christopher Halliwell's former home |
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| The garden of a property where double-killer Christopher Halliwell once lived is being searched by police. | |
| Officers are understood to be digging at two addresses in Broad Street, Swindon. | |
| Halliwell was jailed for life last year for the 2003 murder of Becky Godden, having already admitted killing Sian O'Callaghan in 2011. | |
| Wiltshire Police said the excavation was related to new intelligence the force had received. | |
| A police spokesperson said: "Specialist officers are currently carrying out excavation work within the gardens of two properties within Broad Street as part of an ongoing investigation being carried out by the Brunel Major Crime Investigation Team. | A police spokesperson said: "Specialist officers are currently carrying out excavation work within the gardens of two properties within Broad Street as part of an ongoing investigation being carried out by the Brunel Major Crime Investigation Team. |
| "This relates to intelligence the force has received. We are unable to comment further at this time." | |
| Several security staff are guarding the scene of the search and a black tarpaulin is covering an alleyway by the house. | |
| BBC West's home affairs correspondent Charlotte Callen said one potential line of police inquiry is the disappearance of Sally Ann John, who was working as a prostitute when she went missing from Swindon, aged 23, in 1995. | |
| She lived close to Halliwell at the time. | |
| Halliwell, a taxi driver, was jailed for life in 2012 for the murder of Miss O'Callaghan, 22, and was told he must serve at least 25 years in prison. | |
| He was convicted last September of murdering Miss Godden, 28, and given a whole-life sentence. | |
| Halliwell had evaded justice for five years following Ms Godden's death due to police breaching arrest guidelines. |