PM to set up meeting between Hartlepool dad of missing Katrice Lee and minister
Sir Keir Starmer gave the response during Prime Minister's Questions
Last updated 1st May 2025
The Prime Minister says he is going to arrange a meeting between a minister and Hartlepool dad, Richard Lee, who has been searching for answers about his missing daughter.
The two year-old disappeared from a British military base in Paderborn, Germany in 1981.
Richard and his family have been fighting to find out what happened to her, believing she was abducted.
Hartlepool's MP, Jonathan Brash, asked Sir Keir Starmer in today's Prime Minister's Questions about meeting them as a way forward in uncovering the truth.
The Prime Minister said: "I thank him for raising this deeply distressing case and our thoughts and sympathies are obviously with Richard Lee and his family. The Defence Serious Crime Unit continue to appeal for new evidence in this case and I will make sure he has a meeting with the appropriate minister to discuss progress."
Richard Lee has given us this response: "I'm pleased my daughter's case has been considered and to meet with a minister is definitely a step in the right direction. If l get the support from the minister combined with my MP Jonathan Brash, l feel we're moving in the right direction and who knows... could this be the beginning of the end? We live in hope."