DETECTIVES hunting for the body of missing estate agent Suzy Lamplugh have dug a second trench in a meadow near Pershore.

Metropolitan police officers began searching farmland off the B4084 Worcester to Pershore road at Ufnell Bridge yesterday.

Officers and forensic experts have been examining a second site this afternoon. The initial trench has now been filled in.

Suzy Lamplugh disappeared in 1986 after leaving her offices in Fulham, west London, to meet a mystery client.

Her body has never been found but she was officially declared dead in 1994.

Following her disappearance, Ms Lamplugh's white Ford Fiesta was discovered in Stevenage Road, Fulham, with the doors unlocked, the handbrake off and the ignition keys missing.

Her purse, still containing £15, was in the pocket of the driver's door.

After she vanished, officers examined thousands of lines of inquiry and conducted DNA testing on 800 unidentified bodies.

Although the case was first closed in October 1987, the file remained open and the investigation was officially reopened in 2000.

In December that year, officers conducted a fingertip search at the former Army barracks in Norton, near Worcester, but were not thought to have found anything significant.