THE grief-stricken mother of a murdered prostitute has expressed her torment at having to organise her daughter's funeral instead of her wedding.

Deborah Goodall, the mother of Vicky Glass, whose remains were found on the North York Moors on November 3, bravely faced the Press yesterday in a bid to find her killer.

Tightly gripping the hand of her second husband, Colin Goodall, she described blonde Vicky as a caring girl with a trusting personality.

Speaking softly, and in a faltering voice, she struggled to express the horrendous pain of losing a daughter, producing photographs of her as an angel-faced youngster.

"You don't think that that you are going to bury your daughter at 21," she said.

"You think you are going to sort out a wedding and see her married."

Mrs Goodall, who has another daughter, Claire, and a young son, Thomas, described how Vicky embarked on a downward spiral after becoming addicted to drugs.

She said: "My heart broke when she got into this life, and it broke again when I heard that she was missing.

"I had built up hope that she would turn up, but this was my worst nightmare."

Vicky's naked body was discovered at a remote spot close to West Lane, near Danby, off the A171 between Teesside and Whitby, three days after her 21st birthday.

It had been six weeks since Vicky, of the Newport area of Middlesbrough, had been dropped off by a taxi outside the town's Shipmate pub at about 4am, when she was last seen alive.

Police have yet to establish how and where she died.

Mrs Goodall said the whole family had been devastated by Vicky's murder, and appealed to her "other family"- the prostitutes she roamed the streets with - to come forward with information.

"The girls she worked with on the streets will know something," she said. "They are like her family and have all got to look after each other."

Detective Superintendent Brian Dunn, who is leading the inquiry, said he was unhappy with the progress made so far.

He said people's lack of sympathy for prostitutes was partly to blame.

"My concern is that some people are adopting the attitude that she was 'only a prostitute'," he said.

"The fact that she was a prostitute is irrelevant. She was a 21-year-old woman who was found dead on the moors."

Anyone who can help with the inquiry should contact Cleveland police on (01642) 301 283 or Crimestoppers on 0800 555111.