Parents fear daughter may have been abducted

The devastated parents of a missing landscape architect broke down in tears as they admitted they feared she had been abducted.

David and Theresa Yeates sobbed as they acknowledged that 25-year-old Joanna - missing since last Friday - could be being held against her will and begged for her to be returned safe and well.

Mr Yeates, 63, said: "I think she was abducted after getting home to her flat. I have no idea of the circumstances of the abduction because of what was left behind.

"I feel sure she would not have gone out by herself, leaving all these things behind, and she was taken away somewhere."

Miss Yeates has not been seen or heard from since last Friday following a night out with work colleagues in Bristol. Her boyfriend, Greg Reardon, 27, reported her missing on Sunday night after returning home to their flat in Clifton from a weekend away in Sheffield visiting family.

Detectives are investigating the possibility that Miss Yeates was abducted and said it was one of several lines of inquiry.

Miss Yeates was last seen leaving the Ram pub at about 8pm, walking up the street.

She popped into a Waitrose on the way - where the last CCTV image of her was taken - rang her best friend to arrange to meet on Christmas Eve and then went to a Tesco Express.A receipt from Tesco was found in her flat, along with the coat she had been wearing, and her phone and keys.