A 57-YEAR-OLD man arrested on suspicion of murdering a missing North-East prostitute has been released on bail.
The man, from Sunderland, was arrested early on Thursday after detectives investigating the disappearance of Rachel Wilson, 19, swooped on an address in the town.
He was being questioned at a station in the Cleveland Police area, but no charges have been brought and he was released on Saturday morning.
A police spokesman said: "The man arrested on suspicion of the murder of Rachel Wilson has been released on bail pending further inquiries."
Rachel, who lived in Grove Hill, Middlesbrough, was last seen on security television footage in the Woodlands Road and Southfield Road area of the town at about 3.30am on May 31, last year.
Efforts by police to trace her, including the questioning of kerb crawlers and hundreds of posters, have failed.
The teenager was the third prostitute in four years to go missing from Teesside's streets. Donna Keogh, 17, vanished five years ago and has never been found, while Vicky Glass, 21, was found dead on the North York Moors in 2000.
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