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COULD windswept Snettisham beach hold vital clues to solve the murder of Alisa Dmitrijeva?
A line of black-clad officers were combing the beach today in the hopes of finding Alisa’s missing mobile phone, a black LG GM360.
Police believe that this beach and its car park were the venue for a party attended by 17-year-old Alisa on August 30.
The officers, armed with rakes, scoured the beach in teams for several hours.
The nearby car park and its scrubland were also being searched by the team.
This beauty spot is well used by dog walkers, bird watchers and families but the site is also said to attract teenagers and “courting couples”.
Running next to the beach and car park is Snettisham Beach Caravan Park.
Owners John and Marilyn Roser say the area is generally quiet but report problems with cars.
They also say that the car park should be locked at night.
Mrs Roser said: “Customers often say ‘There was a lot of noise there’ but it is difficult to say if it was said on that precise evening.
“We have the odd joyrider.”
The car park is owned by Snettisham Parish Council.
Chairman Eric Langford said that the car park is well used at night.
He said: “I wouldn’t be surprised if Alisa was there.
“The car park is often used at night by twitchers, people watching the sunset, dogwalkers and courting couples.
“All of these frequent it late at night and early in the morning.”
Police are not only looking for Alisa’s mobile phone but are also asking for sightings of Alisa and a green P-registration Lexus between August 30 and September 6.
Officers are appealing to the eastern European community by putting up posters in Latvian, Lithuanian and Russian.
The Lynn News has produced a video in Russian, which is available on this website, www.lynnnews.co.uk. (SEE LINK AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS STORY).
Russian speaker Valeria Makara reported close to the woodland on the Sandringham estate where Alisa was found.
If you can help call police on 101 or Crimestoppers on 0800 555111.
o THE teenager found murdered on the Queen’s Sandringham Estate had been partying with other members of the Eastern European community at Snettisham beach car park, police believe.
A team of 14 officers began a search of the area today in a bid to find 17-year-old Alisa Dmitrijeva’s mobile phone and other personal items.
DCI Jes Fry, who is leading the inquiry, said: “Inquiries indicate she was in the car park or in that area during the evening of August 30 and returned there in the early hours of the following morning.
“We are carrying out a search there to try to see if we can find her phone or any other personal items there.
“Obviously there is a possibility that she may have died there and been taken and deposited where she was found.
“Several people from her community were drinking and socialising there.”
Previously, the last confirmed sighting of Latvian Miss Dmitrijeva was in Friars Street, Lynn, at 12.15am on August 31 when she was seen getting into a green P-registered Lexus GS300.
DCI Fry said he did not know how many people were at the party or if those there were from Wisbech, where Miss Dmitrijeva lived with her family, or Lynn, though he believes the Eastern European communities of both towns are closely linked.
DCI Fry believes Miss Dmitrijeva travelled to and from the Snettisham beach party in the Lexus.
Police have spoken to the two men who were in the Lexus, who have previously claimed they dropped Miss Dmitrijeva off at Asda in Wisbech.
Tests are still being carried out on Miss Dmitrijeva’s body, which was found by a dog walker in woodland off King’s Avenue, between Anmer and Sandringham, on New Year’s Day. DCI Fry said it has still not been possible to ascertain if she had been sexually assaulted.
DCI Fry said: “There are several lines of inquiry we are following but I am not in a position to discuss them at this time.”
He added: “I would still ask the local communities in Wisbech and King’s Lynn to think back to the August bank holiday and following week in September last year, and to get in touch if they have any information about Alisa’s whereabouts during this time.
“We particularly want to hear from members of the Latvian, Lithuanian and Russian communities who may have known Alisa.
“We have had multi-lingual posters put up in key locations to encourage people to come forward and we are in the process of trying to have an appeal played on radio stations listened to by these communities.
“As well as sightings of Alisa herself, I am particularly keen to try to find her black LG GM360 mobile phone, or to hear of any sightings in the Lynn and Wisbech area of the bottle green P-registration Lexus GS300 that Alisa was last seen in on 31 August 2011.”
For video appeal in Russian click HERE
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