Libby Squire: Police Thank Public For Help As Search For Missing Student Focuses On Local Playing Fields

“You know we’ve been out searching for Libby Squire every day for the last week and thanks for your help. We have all come together. Thanks for letting us do our jobs as well.”

Police are believed to be examining CCTV footage which shows a man getting in and out of a car minutes after the last sighting of Miss Squire.

The footage, obtained by ITV news, appears to show a man sitting with his legs out the driver’s side door of a parked vehicle in Hull, said by the broadcaster to be close to where the philosophy student is thought to have disappeared.

He leaves the car, and a minute-and-a-half later a man then is seen opening the front passenger side door and moving around before getting behind the wheel and driving away.

The clip is said by ITV news to be “a central part” of the investigation into the student’s disappearance.

During the footage, thought to run from around a minute past midnight to a few seconds before 12.09am on February 1, a cyclist and car pass the parked vehicle.

Police were granted a further 36 hours detention from 9.11am on Friday to question the 24-year-old man, who was arrested on Wednesday night on suspicion of abduction.