Midlands News: 08.01.1968: Police Search for Missing 15 year old girl

Summary

Police search for missing 15 year old girl Mary Bastholm of Gloucester.

Year:

1968

Duration:

0:00:44

Film type:

Black & White / Mute

Company:

ATV

Master format:

16mm

Description

We see a missing poster in a pub (text says that Mary Bastholme was last seen waiting for a bus outside the Avenue Hotel on 6 January 1968). We then see police with dogs searching land alongside the A38 and a night shot of a uniformed officer stopping motorists.


Credits

No credits specified


Notes

Story number - 68-28. The death of Mary Bastholm has been linked to the killer Fred West although no body has ever been found and West did not admit to the murder before his suicide in 1995.