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| Nicola Payne: Wood focus in missing mum search | |
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| Police investigating the disappearance of a Coventry mother last seen 21 years ago said they had discovered "areas of interest" in woodland being searched. | Police investigating the disappearance of a Coventry mother last seen 21 years ago said they had discovered "areas of interest" in woodland being searched. |
| Nicola Payne went missing from the Wood End area in December 1991. She was 18 and had a six-month-old son. | Nicola Payne went missing from the Wood End area in December 1991. She was 18 and had a six-month-old son. |
| West Midlands Police began searching parkland off Purcell Road on Tuesday. | West Midlands Police began searching parkland off Purcell Road on Tuesday. |
| Det Ch Insp Matt Markham said: "There are small areas within the wooded section and we'll be making a closer examination to see what they tell us." | Det Ch Insp Matt Markham said: "There are small areas within the wooded section and we'll be making a closer examination to see what they tell us." |
| The latest search includes the use of specially-trained dogs and ground X-ray and metal detection equipment. | |
| Miss Payne was on her way to her parents' house from the home she shared with her boyfriend Jason Cooke, half a mile away in Winston Avenue, when she went missing. | |
| Excavation plans | |
| Police said the ground was being examined with a view to some excavation taking place later. | |
| Mr Markham said specialists had been looking at the area around certain trees which would have been saplings at the time of Miss Payne's disappearance. | |
| "These are hurdles for them to overcome but we have a dedicated team who can eliminate areas for us and progress is being made," he said. | |
| "We're committed to doing a detailed and thorough job, we owe that to Nicola's family and friends and the community of north east Coventry for whom this was a significant event." | |
| Miss Payne was last seen near to the Black Pad in Wood End on 14 December 1991. | |
| In 2007 a man was arrested in connection with her disappearance and released on bail. | |
| No-one has ever been charged in connection with the case. |