Police have launched a new search in their efforts to locate the body of Arlene Arkinson – 22 years after her disappearance following a disco in Donegal.
The new dig which is currently on-going was sparked after a farmer reported some disturbed earth in a remote area in Killen, Castlederg.
Arlene vanished in 1994 after attending a disco in Donegal with friends, she was reportedly last seen being driven away by convicted child killer Robert Howard.
He was acquitted of the schoolgirl’s murder in 2005 by a jury not told about his lengthy criminal history which included killing another teenager, Hannah Williams, in south London several years earlier.
Arlene’s body has never been found despite extensive searches.
Howard remained the prime suspect in the unsolved case until his death in an English prison last year.
The new searches are focused on farmland at Killen, around a mile from Castlederg, close to where Arlene was last seen.
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