Mar 25 2009
Where is Claudia Lawrence? - Mysterious Disappearance of Yorkshire University Chef
Where is Claudia Lawrence? - Mysterious Disappearance of Yorkshire University Chef
Claudia Lawrence, 35, disappeared somewhere between last Wednesday night and the next day when she would have left her house, in the dark, at 5.30 AM for her 3 mile journey to work at York University.
She never made it…
She also didn’t meet her friend later that day, for an arranged drink at the Nag’s Head, her local pub.
She had been walking to work since her car broke down recently. Her parents had offered her taxi money or use of their car but Claudia had refused, saying she liked the walk.
One of the last sightings of Miss Lawrence was on Wednesday last week at around 2pm. She had just finished work at Goodricke College, where she worked as a chef. She was later spotted on CCTV footage as she walked the return journey home.
Detective Superintendent Ray Galloway, of North Yorkshire Police who is leading this case says his first instinct is that she may have “come to some harm”. He also feels that it is by someone that she knows.
He said he does not think she would just go off, or get into a car with a stranger. It is “totally out of character” and he is “extremely concerned”, though they could not rule out entirely the possibility that she had been abducted.
Police are very interested in finding Miss Lawrence’s small green/blue rucksack which contains her chef’s whites for work and it is thought that she would have had this with her when she disappeared.
Her parents last heard from their daughter on Wednesday when she called them but are now extremely concerned as there was no contact on Mother’s Day. It was Miss Lawrence’s day off and her mother says she would normally have come to see her.
There are no fears that Miss Lawrence is suffering from depression or may have committed suicide, everything appeared as normal.
Her mobile phone, which she used a lot, has not been touched since last week at 8.23 Wednesday night and on Thursday her phone went dead.
Police are now following up on all passive data through communications and contacts extracted from her mobile.
The last positive sighting of Miss Lawrence was by a friend of hers at 3.10 AM, last Wednesday, as she walked back to her house.
Her father has now had posters made up with her image on and he is handing them out in a bid to jog people’s memories in his appeal to the public who may have spotted her at some point that day.
She didn’t take any important documents with her. No passport, credit cards or money. She just appears to have “disappeared into thin air”.
“Miss Lawrence is described as white, around 5ft 6ins and of slim build, with brown hair and brown eyes. She was last seen wearing a white T-shirt, blue skinny jeans and white trainers”. -
It must be terrible for her friends and family, not knowing where she is, or whether or not she’s alive and well. I hope they find her soon and she’s okay.