17/11/2014

1995 Disappearance Reopened As Murder Investigation

Police have reopened and reclassified a 1995 missing person case as a murder inquiry.

Officers said that "significant new information" has been uncovered during a review of the disappearance of Sally Ann John, who went missing in Swindon in September 1995. She was 23 and working as a prostitute at the time.

Police are appealing for anyone with any information to come forward.

(MH/CD)

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