'Struggling to walk': Missing student Libby Squire
A neighbour told yesterday how she heard a terrified woman screaming around the time missing university student Libby Squire was last seen.
The mother of two said the screams were ‘loud and urgent’ and sounded ‘like a woman was being attacked’.
The development came as Miss Squire’s worried parents made a desperate public plea for information. Her tearful mother Lisa recorded a video message for her daughter, saying: ‘I miss you so much. It is breaking my heart not knowing where you are.’
Humberside Police say they are keeping an ‘open mind as to the circumstances surrounding Libby’s disappearance’, although it officially remains a missing person inquiry.
The neighbour said the 'blood-curdling screams' she heard shortly after Libby went missing were so disturbing she sat up in bed and said 'oh my God', the Sun reported.
A specialist police marine team searched a waterway close to the 21-year-old philosophy student’s digs in Hull. They used paddles to break the remaining surface ice and carefully scoured Barmston Drain without success. A nearby pond was also searched.
Miss Squire has not been seen since Thursday night when she was so drunk she was ‘mumbling and struggling to walk’.
After being refused entry into a nightclub in Hull, she got into a taxi alone and arrived home in Wellesley Avenue at 11.29pm, although she did not go inside. She was captured on CCTV at 11.40pm sitting on a bench at the side of a busy main road a short walk away. A motorist stopped to offer help.
Humberside Police say they are keeping an ‘open mind as to the circumstances surrounding Libby’s disappearance’
Libby's parents Lisa and Russell Squire made an emotional appeal for help in finding her
Police said she remained in the area until 12.09am and has not been seen since.
Yesterday a woman in her 30s told the Mail that she and her husband heard a piercing scream at 12.30am.
The woman, who has asked not to be named, lives about 100 yards from Miss
