Family of missing shop worker makes fresh appeal

The family of a missing shop assistant will make a fresh public appeal today for information about her murder almost a year ago.

Relatives of Lisa Dorrian will join senior police officers to ask the public for help in tracking her killer and finding her body.

Two men, aged 18 and 23, who were arrested for questioning about the murder on Monday were released without charge last night. Another 18-year-old had been released earlier.

Lisa, 25, from Bangor, Co Down, was last seen at a party at a caravan park down the coast in Ballyhalbert on February 28 last year.

A major police investigation has failed to uncover either her killers, or where her body was left. Several men have been questioned and released without charge prior to the latest detentions.

Last week graffiti identifying one of the main suspects in the murder was daubed on walls.

It named one of the last men to see her alive and said: “Tell the police where Lisa’s body is and live.”

But despite a search on both land and sea no trace of the missing woman’s body has been found.

Her heartbroken family have erected billboards appealing for help, set up a confidential web site and offered a reward in what has so far been a vain effort to get information.