Is 30-year mystery behind girl who never came home from buying cereal about to be solved?

A teenage girl left home to quickly buy cereal but was found at the bottom of a canal. Now more than 30 years later there are hopes her killer may have been found.

Lindsay Rimer, 13, vanished in 1994 after nipping to her local Spar in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire.

After several months of searching, Lindsay’s body was found, weighed down by a large rock, in the Rochdale Canal, about two miles from her home.

Her murderer has been on the run ever since.

Today, West Yorkshire Police announced that a man had been arrested on suspicion of the teenager’s murder.

The man was arrested by detectives from the Police Homicide and Major Enquiry Team at an undisclosed UK prison, where he is serving a sentence for other offences.

Police have revealed he is currently being interviewed over the course of today and tomorrow, and is expected to be bailed and returned to prison while enquiries continue.

They have also said officers have approached many potential witnesses – mainly in the Hebden Bridge and wider Halifax area – who have been identified by the investigation.

DCI James Entwistle said: ‘We remain very firmly committed to doing everything we can to get justice for Lindsay, and to give her family the answers they still so desperately need after all these years.

‘The arrest we have made today comes as a result of our continued focus on progressing the investigation.

‘We are keeping Lindsay’s family updated and, while we appreciate the understandable public interest that today’s arrest will bring, we do not anticipate any immediate developments at this stage.

‘Although it is now more than 30 years since Lindsay was murdered, we remain convinced there is someone out there who has vital information that could finally help to ease her family’s pain, and we urge them to do the right thing and tell us what they know.’

Anyone with any information that could assist the investigation is asked to contact detectives.