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Georgia Williams disappearance: Police given more time to hold suspect | Georgia Williams disappearance: Police given more time to hold suspect |
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Detectives searching for missing teenager Georgia Williams have been given more time to question a man being held on suspicion of her murder. | Detectives searching for missing teenager Georgia Williams have been given more time to question a man being held on suspicion of her murder. |
The 17-year-old student, from Wellington, Shropshire, was last seen in the town on Sunday evening. | |
A man, 22, from Wellington, who was arrested in Glasgow on Tuesday, is being questioned by police in Telford. | A man, 22, from Wellington, who was arrested in Glasgow on Tuesday, is being questioned by police in Telford. |
Police said they had had several calls from people in north Wales about a van linked to Georgia's disappearance. | |
West Mercia Police made an appeal on the BBC's Crimewatch programme on Thursday for sightings of a silver Toyota Hiace 300 GS van, registration CX06 ASV. | |
The van travelled from Wellington to Oswestry, Shropshire, before going to north Wales, Chester, Kendal in Cumbria and then on to Glasgow, where it was seized by officers. | |
A force spokesman said: "We've had had several calls... including a number of sightings around the Wrexham and Chester area. The investigation team is currently following them up." | |
House searched | House searched |
Detectives are also asking shops and businesses in the Wrexham and Deeside areas to check their CCTV footage from last Monday evening for any sign of the van. | |
On Thursday, forensic searches were carried out at a semi-detached house in Avondale Road, Wellington - where neighbours said a Jamie Reynolds lived with his parents. | |
There were also searches at Brown Moss nature reserve, near Whitchurch, Shropshire, although a police cordon in place there has since been lifted. | |
Officers searched the area after items of clothing were found, although this discovery has now been ruled out as having any connection with Georgia's disappearance. | |
On Thursday evening, magistrates in Telford granted police an extra 36 hours to hold the 22-year-old man being questioned on suspicion of murder. | |
He was arrested on Wednesday at a hotel in Glasgow on suspicion of kidnapping Georgia. | |
Police have until 06:30 BST on Saturday to charge or release him. | |
The West Mercia force said it was still looking for Georgia "at this moment in time" and 50 detectives were working on the investigation. | |
Police are still appealing for information from anyone who saw or was in contact with Georgia after she left her home on Sunday night. |