Victoria Taylor: Mysterious bag mum seen clutching before she vanished could hold key clue

Victoria Taylor disappeared from her location successful Malton, North Yorkshire, connected September 30 and a CCTV representation of her clutching a container could clasp a captious clue, says a erstwhile constabulary detective

A “rucksack oregon bag” that missing mum Victoria Taylor is pictured clutching could clasp a cardinal hint into her disappearance, said a erstwhile constabulary detective.

Victoria, 34, vanished from her household location successful Malton, North Yorkshire, leaving down her fiancé Matthew and their two-year-old daughter. She was seen connected CCTV purchasing a portion astatine the M&S based astatine the section BP store connected Welham Road astatine 11.35am connected September 30.

And constabulary person present confirmed a sighting of Victoria which was captured connected CCTV astatine 11.53am the aforesaid time astatine Malton Bus Station connected Railway Street. To date, this is the past confirmed sighting of Victoria.

The representation shows her wearing a achromatic Adidas puffer overgarment with stripes down the sides, bluish jeans, camouflage headdress and pink/salmon Vans backpack. She is besides carrying an chartless point which appears to beryllium a bag.

Over the past week constabulary accidental they person undertaken extended enquiries successful the hunt to find the mum-of-one. The probe has progressive the postulation and reappraisal of CCTV footage and passive information research. They person searched cardinal areas of some onshore and h2o and interviewed respective witnesses.

And erstwhile Met Police detective Peter Bleksley said that helium believes that the container she is seen clutching successful the past known footage of her could supply cardinal accusation into what has happened to her.

He told The Sun: "Victoria tin beryllium seen clutching what whitethorn beryllium a rucksack oregon container of immoderate statement precise tightly to her chest. Now this footage is conscionable implicit a week old. but it's intelligibly thing of value to her. It's not similar idiosyncratic carrying a buying container usually successful their hands by their sides.

"It's thing she's clutching astir arsenic if you were holding a newborn baby, though I indispensable constituent retired it astir decidedly is not that. Whatever this is, wherever she's picked it up wherever she's recovered it, oregon being fixed it oregon purchased it - it means an atrocious batch to her. And unluckily we don't cognize the value of that conscionable yet."

Her abrupt vanishing triggered a immense effect from volunteers who person turned retired successful the anticipation of uncovering her. But person and radical head for 'The hunt for Victoria Taylor' Facebook leafage Charlotte Cundill warned radical searching for Victoria to enactment safe. It comes arsenic dense rainfall battered parts of the UK overnight.

"It's a bedewed day, truthful delight wrapper up and spell careful," she said. "I'd counsel radical to enactment distant from the stream banks contiguous if imaginable owed to the weather overnight." The radical present has an estimated 8,000 members with volunteers vowing to find "beautiful" Victoria. Last Tuesday, constabulary recovered respective idiosyncratic items belonging to Victoria adjacent to the River Derwent. The country is presently a main country of absorption for investigators and the hunt is expected to proceed into the coming days.

In a Monday update, Inspector Martin Dennison from North Yorkshire Police said: “This is an highly hard clip for Victoria’s family, and we are continuing to bash each we tin to effort and find her. The absorption of our hunt remains the country astir the River Derwent and Victoria’s household members are alert of this and the wider strategy that is successful place. The household and the constabulary recognize the section assemblage wanting to amusement their enactment with the searches for Victoria, but we impulse radical to workout caution erstwhile searching peculiarly adjacent to the river.”