Police discovered quantities of suspected cannabis, suspected cocaine and other drug paraphernalia after storming a property in Denton. During the raid yesterday (November 2) officers also found a ‘large’ amount of counterfeit money.
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Police divers are searching a river more than 17 years after a mum went missing on her way to work. Malgorzata Wnuczek, who was aged 27 at the time, vanished on May 31, 2006.
She was last seen after catching a bus from her workplace at Peter Jackson Logistics into Leicester city centre. The last contact the mum had with her family, who called her Gosia, was via text message two days before.
A re-appeal from both her loved ones and police in 2016 failed to find her. In June a 39-year-old man was arrested in the Greater Manchester area on suspicion of assisting an offender and perverting the course of justice.
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He has since been released on bail. In June police divers searching the River Soar, around the area of the Mill Lane bridge, found several unidentified objects in the riverbed.
Leicestershire Police have launched a renewed appeal for information and specialist teams have today started a further two-day search of the river. Detectives believe there may be people within Leicester’s Polish community who know what happened to her.
Officers from the East Midlands Special Operations Unit (EMSOU) have been continuing to work in partnership with policing colleagues from Malgorzata’s native Poland. Det Insp Jenni Heggs said: "During the previous search of the river, some items were found within the riverbed that we were unable to identify.
"This next phase of the investigation is to establish what they are and whether they are anything that could provide us with information as to what happened to Malgorzata. I would still ask that anyone who is able to help with our enquiries, but has not yet contacted
Police discovered quantities of suspected cannabis, suspected cocaine and other drug paraphernalia after storming a property in Denton. During the raid yesterday (November 2) officers also found a ‘large’ amount of counterfeit money.
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