Peter Lawrence: "I Just Want To Know What Happened To Claudia"
The dad of missing York chef Claudia Lawrence has issued a fresh appeal for information on his daughter's 41st birthday.
Six birthdays on and still no news - but the dad of missing York chef Claudia Lawrence has told us he still has hope his daughter can be found alive.
Today marks Claudia's 41st birthday and her father, Peter Lawrence, has issued a fresh appeal for information.
Her family's still waiting to find out what happened to her.
Claudia vanished from her York home on 19 March 2009 and police still don't know if she left for work that morning or if something happened overnight. But officers suspect she was murdered.
Earlier this week, police began a new search of an alleyway close to her home on Heworth Road for fresh clues.
Peter says six years on, the family's still struggling to come to terms with Claudia's disappearance. He told Viking FM:
"Six birthdays on from when Claudia disappeared, I'm still convinced somebody out there knows what happened to her and if they saw the suffering the family has gone through over the past six years, they really should say something at last.
"Even the smallest bit of information could really help, you may not feel that it's important but it might just fit a place in the jigsaw that enables police to find something else. However of little importance it is thought to be, please if you know something tell the police.
"The last six years have been a nightmare because we don't know what happened to Claudia. She was with us and very much a part of our lives and then all of a sudden overnight, absolutely nothing. To suffer that for six years, not only the lack of companionship and lack of love, but not knowing what happened.
"As the days and years go by it obviously gets more difficult and police decided some time ago that it was a murder case, they want to find Claudia, I want to find Claudia but I want to find her alive.
"It's just a waste of life in a way because we haven't got that companionship, that love, that daily contact and anybody else out there who has a family but knows anything at all about Claudia's disappearance must realise what it is like for us.
"Officers to do with major crime are doing all they can but of course six years on, apart from new forensics we are a little bit limited but they keep trying and I sincerely hope they will until we get a result."