Overview

• The search has moved into a third week with no confirmed sightings since 16 September, according to Durham Police.
• CCTV shows Mavis leaving South Park onto Parkside near the Heslop Drive entrance just after 1:30pm after leaving her Haughton home around 12:30pm.
• Specialist operations include police drone teams, house-to-house inquiries, extensive CCTV reviews, and support from Teesdale and Weardale Search and Mountain Rescue hill and canoe units.
• Detectives ask for CCTV or dashcam footage from the Skerne Park and West End areas on 16 September and urge farmers to check outbuildings, with information to Durham Constabulary on 101 quoting incident 348 of September 16.
• The case sits within a wider pattern of unresolved North East disappearances, including a murder inquiry into Naheed Khan with five arrests and a 2020 cold-case review in Steven Clark’s 1992 disappearance.