A heartbroken mum has recalled the final moment she saw her daughter before she vanished and was found dead.
Geri Rimer, from , has bravely shared how she felt "incredible unease" after letting her daughter Lindsay, 13, go to the shop. Geri explained how she had popped out with her pal to visit a music venue called the Trades Club in Hebden Bridge when her daughter suddenly turned up.
Lindsay had been home with her dad on Monday, November 7, 1994, before she appeared at the club. The teen had told her mum that they needed cornflakes and left the venue after her mother handed her some money. She went to the shop but never made it home.
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Geri has paid tribute to her "delightful child", 30 years on from her devastating as her family appeal for new information. She wished she could "turn back the clock." Speaking to BBC's Crimewatch on Friday, she said: "It was 10 past 10. My words were 'what are you doing here?'. She said we had run out of cornflakes. So I gave her £1.20 to get a small box. She was going to get the cornflakes and go home. I think my last words to her were 'make sure you go straight home'."
Lindsay was seen on at the local Spar store at 10.20pm. She bought the cornflakes and, 20 minutes later, Lindsay was seen near a bus station close to the entrance to Memorial Gardens. Geri told the show: "I left the Trades Club at about quarter to/10 to 11 because I felt an incredible unease - unexplainable. So when I got in, I just presumed she had gone up to her room. Maybe I should have gone and checked, but I didn't."
The following day, for her paper round. Geri noticed that Lindsay's school money was still on the table and her paper bag was still on the chair. She ran upstairs and it was obvious Lindsay's bed hadn't been slept in. The police were then called. launched a missing person's inquiry. Hundreds of local people helped search the local area, .
Geri remembered feeling "dread" and, as the days went by, got a feeling that her daughter was dead. Lindsay's body was found five months later, on April 12, 1995, at Rawdon Mill lock. She was fully dressed in the clothes she had in. The loose change from her trip to the Spar was found in her pocket. Geri says: "I just wish we could get to the end of it. It won't bring her back. I wish I could turn back the clock, but I can't." Lindsay's sister, Juliet, who was a baby when Lindsay disappeared, has created a memory box of Lindsay's letters which has helped her learn more about what Lindsay was like.
She told Crimewatch: "I think as I've got older that it's really struck home that something's missing and someone is . I wish she was around at to have dinner together, to play stupid games and be silly and go on walks with. There's so many wishes about what she could have been in my life. If someone came forward with that last piece of information that would complete the case to bring justice to Lindsay, the relief I would feel for my parents, to know that they got the answers they need before it's too late for them."
Detective Chief Inspector James Entwistle, of West Yorkshire Police, said the initial search for Lindsay was enormous and involved the whole community. A post-mortem examination revealed it was likely that Lindsay was strangled. Her body was then weighed down with a boulder. DCI Entwistle urged anyone with to contact police. Lindsay's sisters have set up a social media campaign and a website that can be found here. The website includes photographs of Lindsay, along with a timeline of events in the case and says: "Help us uncover the truth".