{"id":11443,"date":"2019-02-12T15:35:20","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T15:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/?p=11443"},"modified":"2019-02-12T15:38:54","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T15:38:54","slug":"libby-squire-search-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/libby-squire-search-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"Libby Squire: search continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police are continuing to search an area close to where missing student Libby Squire was last seen.<\/p>\n<p>Libby, 21, has not been seen since January 31st. The University of Hull student went missing after a night out in the city. Police are searching a variety of locations including\u00a0the Oak Road Playing Fields in Hull.\u00a0On Tuesday officers returned to the same area using power tools to cut back growth.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11341\" style=\"width: 713px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11341\" class=\"wp-image-11341 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/105546258_libbysquirenewweds6feb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"703\" height=\"395\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/105546258_libbysquirenewweds6feb.jpg 936w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/105546258_libbysquirenewweds6feb-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/105546258_libbysquirenewweds6feb-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/105546258_libbysquirenewweds6feb-624x351.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/105546258_libbysquirenewweds6feb-750x421.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 703px) 100vw, 703px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-11341\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Libby Squire\/\/ family photo<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Humberside Police said: &#8220;Our priority remains to find Libby and support her family at this incredibly distressing time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A 24-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of abduction and he still remains a person of interest.<\/p>\n<p>The force has written to local residents to ask if anyone heard &#8220;anything unusual&#8221; on the night of her disappearance. Police did carry out house to house\u00a0inquiries in Hull, and a dog unit, police divers and helicopter have all been used as part of the search.\u00a0The force said it had &#8220;received hundreds of calls&#8221; and was pursuing a number of lines of inquiry.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11291\" style=\"width: 746px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11291\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11291\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/105456745_libbypic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"736\" height=\"841\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/105456745_libbypic.jpg 736w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/105456745_libbypic-263x300.jpg 263w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/105456745_libbypic-624x713.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-11291\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image copyrightLISA SQUIRE\/FACEBOOK<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Detectives believe that Libby \u2013\u00a0\u00a0Liberty Anna \u2013 went home in a taxi at 23:30 but did not enter her house. Her mobile phone was found in the house but\u00a0\u00a0\u201chas not provided any further insight as to where she may be or her movements that night\u201d, the force said. A motorist did help Libby on the night she went missing however,\u00a0the taxi driver and motorist were \u201cnot suspects\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Libby Squire, who is 5ft 7in tall and has long dark brown hair, had been wearing a black leather jacket, black long-sleeved top and a black denim skirt with lace.<\/p>\n<p>Timeline of events:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"story-body__unordered-list\">\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\"><strong>31 January<\/strong>: Libby\u00a0Squire\u00a0is believed to have been dropped off in a taxi from The Welly nightclub to her student home on Wellesley Avenue at about 23:30. She did not enter the house but her phone was found there. She was spotted on CCTV 10 minutes later near a bench on Beverley Road, by the junction with Haworth Street, where a motorist stopped to offer her help<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\"><strong>1 February:<\/strong>\u00a0The philosophy student is believed to have remained in the area until about 00:09. She is later\u00a0reported missing and officers begin a search<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\"><strong>4 February:\u00a0<\/strong>Her parents make an\u00a0emotional video appeal urging their daughter to \u201cget in touch\u201d<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\"><strong>5 February:<\/strong>\u00a0About\u00a0200 students and staff gather in the rain at the University of Hull\u00a0to show solidarity and support for Ms Squire, her family and friends<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\"><strong>6 February:\u00a0<\/strong>A 24-year-old man is arrested on suspicion of abduction<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\"><strong>7 February:<\/strong>\u00a0A large screen displaying images of the student is driven around parts of Hull and officers hand out leaflets in the area where Ms Squire was last seen<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\"><strong>8 February:<\/strong>\u00a0Humberside Police is granted more time to question the arrested man<\/li>\n<li><strong>12 February<\/strong>: the search continues&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police are continuing to search an area close to where missing student Libby Squire was last seen. Libby, 21, has not been seen since January 31st. The University of Hull student went missing after a night out in the city. Police are searching a variety of locations including\u00a0the Oak Road Playing Fields in Hull.\u00a0On Tuesday&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[411,733,747],"class_list":["post-11443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk-news","tag-hull","tag-libby-squire","tag-university-of-hull"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11443"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11446,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11443\/revisions\/11446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}