Police investigating the murder of Swindon office worker Sian O’Callaghan have completed their finger-tip search of a pond in a remote wood in Ramsbury where her boots and other personal items have been found in the silt.
Forensic tests have yet to be completed on their finds, the results of which will take some time in their bid to discover whether they all belonged to Sian or whether they come from other missing women.
Specialist police found the boots Sian was wearing on the night she disappeared in March 2011 floating in the pond last week.
They have speculated that the spot between Swindon and Marlborough could have been the place where Sian was killed by the taxi driver, Christopher Halliwell, now serving a life sentence, or it was the spot where he merely dumped her boots.
Detective Chief Inspector Sean Memory now says that while he found it “very strange” that someone would go to the lengths of burying clothes in a remote wood, it could be simply fly-tipping and be completely unconnected with the investigation.
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