The family of a suspected Fred West victim are no closer to finding out what happened to the schoolgirl nearly 50 years after she disappeared.
Mary Bastholm, 15, vanished in 1968 as she was making her way to catch a bus to see her then-boyfriend Tim Merrett.
The teen had worked at the Pop-In Cafe, which was later renamed the Clean Plate, where serial killer West was a regular.
Hopes had been raised in 2021 of finding Mary's remains when a TV crew filming a documentary - fronted by Trevor McDonald - found some blue material at the cafe in Gloucester.
It sparked police to carry out excavation work in the basement, lasting nearly a week and costing at least £55,000.
