27/01/2015

Police Search Woodland For Missing Dorset Woman

Police investigating the disappearance of a 25-year-old woman in Dorset are searching woodland.

Mother-of-four Samantha Henderson, from Corfe Castle in Dorset, has been missing since Wednesday of last week.

She was last seen at about 15:00 on 21 January at Corfe Primary School.

Police are currently holding a suspect in connection with her disappearance and have until 17:00 today to continue questioning him.

It is understood up to forty specialist officers, including a swift water search team, are currently carrying out a major search of an area of woodland near Corfe Castle in Dorset.

Police added that they are keen to speak to anyone who travelled on the A351 on Wednesday or Thursday of last week, particularly if they may have had CCTV or cameras "in their cabs, cars or on their motorbike or bicycle helmets."

(MH/CD)

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