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Show Divers may be joining .hunt for river girl HER BICYCLE POINTS AGAIN TO DAGGER CRIME No. 2 Express Staff Reporter DETECTIVKS hunting the killer of 16-year-old Barbara Songhurst were last nifht planning- to call in Navy divers to search the Thames for 18-year-old Christine Heed. Christine's blue and cream bicycle was found on the bottom of the river yesterday 100 yards from the snot, where her friend Barbara was stabbed to death. This strengthened police fears that Urn man they want is a ruthless double murderer. A murderer so vicious that he stabbed again and again with a nine-inch dagger as Barbara fought his attack Three young men campers told the police yesterday that on Sunday they were on t.iie tow-path near Ted-dingtMi Ted-dingtMi Lock with Barbara and Christine at 11 p.m. nine hours before Barbara was found dead In the river on Monday morning. 'file men told the police they left, ihe girls three-quarters of a mile from the lock. At the lock blood on t.he pathway suggested that Barbara was murdered there. Three hours The three campers spent three hours at Richnvmd Police Star.ton. Thev were Albert, Sparks, 18-vear-old apprentice electrician, who lives a few doors ' awav from Barbara's home in Prince's-road. Teddington. Peter Warren, 18-year-old apprentice architect, who lives close to Christine's home in Roy-grove, Hampton, and 20-vear-old architect archi-tect apprentice John "Wells, of Sydney-road. Teddington. Thev pitched their tent at a bend of the river in Ham Field. Just opposite St. Catherine's Convent,' Twickenham, on Saturday. It, was only at noon vesterdav that thev found that the dead girl was a friend of theirs. Said Albert Sparks : "We knew the girls quite well. We met them at a bus stop m Richmond on Friday night and mentioned that we were going to camp in Ham Field. " Thev turned up at our camp on Sundav morning, came again in the afternoon and again at about 8 o'clock at night,. Kit searched "We sat talking" and necking around our camp fire until after dark. Then at about 11 o'clock Barbara said she had promised to be in bv 11.30. " We went with them about 40 yards through the bushes to the tow-path and they rode off in the direction of Teddington lock." U.S. Air Force authorities at nearbv Bushev Park have been asked to help the inquiries. The kit, of 1,500 airmen there was searched yesterday for bloodstains, blood-stains, t Police throughout the country have been asked to watch for a U.S. aii-man driving a stolen black car. He went absent from the camp two days ago. Detectives also want to contact con-tact an 18-year-old leading aircraftman air-craftman of the R.A.F., a friend of both girls, in the hope he might be able to help their inquiries. |