Contractors arrive at The Clean Plate café in Gloucester after police found "possible evidence" of where a suspected teenage victim of serial killer Fred West may be buriedExcavation work has begun at a café where the body of a missing teenager suspected of being a victim of Fred West may be buried. The noise of power drills could be heard coming from inside the Clean Plate café in Southgate Street, Gloucester. SponsoredThis morning contractors unloaded a power drill, as well as other equipment, such as shovels. A police officer stands on duty at the rear entrance to The Clean Plate café in Gloucester GEOFF CADDICK/GETTY IMAGESPolice have begun excavating the cellar after finding “possible evidence” suggesting the body of Mary Bastholm, who disappeared in 1968, might be buried there. Ground-penetrating radar has uncovered six voids under the concrete basement floor — some a metre long and half a metre deep — which police said could be created

Source: The Times May 19, 2021 14:01 UTC