Our sympathies go out to Victoria’s family and friends he said

“Our sympathies go out to Victoria’s family and friends,” he said. “Unfortunately they still do not know what happened on that night or what the motive was for this attack.”Victoria’s murder sparked off one of the biggest investigations undertaken by Suffolk police. The inquiry team has already sifted through a massive quantity of information and have shown great dedication and I would like to personally thank them for all their hard work throughout this long- running investigation.”We will now go away and review our investigation in the light of today’s decision.”. English Heritage is campaigning to prevent the Seahenge prehistoric wooden temple being returned to the Norfolk beach where it was discovered two and half years ago. Its removal provoked prolonged protests by locals and Druid groups, who said the circle was a religious monument.English Heritage, which oversaw and financed the excavation of the 50-plus timbers that surrounded an upturned tree stump, said the structure should not be returned because of the danger of it being destroyed by the North Sea.The conservation body has now planned a public meeting to discuss its proposal and a spokesman said it was exploring the possibilities for displaying Seahenge with its owners, the le Strange Estate, and local organisations.Research on Seahenge has changed the minds of archae-ologists on life in the Early Bronze Age. The site is yielding extraordinary new evidence of a much more dramatic prehistoric industrial revolution in Early Bronze Age Britain than had been previously thought.A 3D laser scanning assessment of all 56 timbers in the monument has revealed that all the tools used to cut down and trim the timbers were made of bronze.Academics had previously been thought that Early Bronze Age tribesmen used a mixture of stone and bronze tools and that bronze axes were a valuable rarity. But the 3D survey of the marks on the timbers has revealed that between 36 and 48 bronze axes – and not one made of stone – were used in the operation.It is yet another piece of evidence suggesting that prehistoric technology was more sophisticated, and common, than thought.The Seahenge axe marks are the earliest metal tool marks ever discovered in Britain – and the 3D survey, funded by English Heritage, is likely to enable scientists to work out exactly how much labour was required to construct the temple.

It should also allow archaeologists for the first time to estimate the quantity of bronze in use in Britain at that time.The new information from the Seahenge timbers and elsewhere suggests that the bronze revolution was particular rapid in Britain, which had a population of about 500,000 at the time – probably for two reasons.Firstly, Britain had excellent resources of tin, which is used to make bronze, in Cornwall and Devon. Secondly, British copper tools, the main metal objects in use between 2500 and 2150BC, were far poorer than many of their continental equivalentsSeahenge has been dated to exactly 2049BC, meaning that it was built less than 100 years after the advent of Britain’s first bronze industry. The 3D laser survey is being analysed by Maisie Taylor, a specialist in prehistoric wood-working.. The frantic attempts of Sarah Payne’s two young brothers to catch her as she fled tearfully from a cornfield before she was kidnapped and killed were relived in court on Monday.

Luke told his police interviewer they thought there was “a pervert going around in a white van picking up children and we started to worry a bit”.Sarah’s parents, Sara, 32, and Michael, 33, from Hersham, Surrey, watched attentively as the videos, which had been recorded the day after their daughter went missing and which they had never seen before, were played.The boys, wearing T-shirts and casual trousers, sat in the same large chair for separate interviews as they tried to piece together the events before Sarah was abducted and told of their attempts to find her. In one of the most poignant moments, Luke asked his police interviewer: “When do you reckon you are going to get Sarah back?”On 1 July last year Sarah, her brothers, younger sister Charlotte, five, and their dog, Fifa, went to a field near their grandparents’ home at East Preston, West Sussex, to play.Sarah was knocked over and hurt her head. In tears, she tried to go back to her grandparents’ house.The boys had been warned by their mother to look after the girls when they went to play. Luke later told police that he was 10 seconds away from stopping Sarah but had to turn back to help Charlotte, who had stung her knee on nettles. “I don’t know why she [Sarah] walked so fast, she’s normally a dawdler,” he said.Lee ran through the cornfield and was three-quarters of the way to a gap in the hedge but she had vanished by the time he reached it.

“I feel as if I should have done something,” he told the police interviewer. Asked if he felt responsible about what had happened, he said “no”.Lee said he went outside the field and saw a suntanned man in a white van drive past, grinning and waving at him “He looked scruffy He looked like he had not shaven for ages. He had little white bristles on his face and there were little bits of grey in his hair, which was greasy,” Lee said. “His face was dirty and he had yellowish teeth when he grinned His eyes were really white and stood out on his face. He looked like he had been through some bushes.”He went to his grandparents’ home and asked his grandmother, Lesley Payne, if Sarah was there. According to her statement, when Lee was told that she wasn’t, he said: “I’ve lost her.”The family embarked on a desperate search. In his statement, which was read to the court, Michael Payne said he went out at 5am the next day to search for his daughter.