Tragedy of vet whose disappearance outside Asda sparked largest search in North Wales Police history
Catherine Gowing s body was never fully recovered after she disappeared in 2012. It later emerged the man who murdered her had a chilling criminal past
05:00, 18 FEB 2021
Clive Sharp appeared in court in Mold charged with the murder of Catherine Gowing
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Cold-hearted killer acted out his sick fantasies by tying up, raping, and dismembering his victim
Catherine Gowing s body was never fully recovered after she disappeared in 2012. Her killer, Clive Sharp, had a chilling criminal past including the rape of a teenage girl and trying to strangle a woman before sexually assaulting her
It was an unthinkable series of events that left a rural community united in sick disbelief.
On Friday, October 12, 2012, vet Catherine Gowing was last seen leaving Asda in the small town of Queensferry, Flintshire.
At the time 37-year-old Catherine s disappearance sparked the largest search to date by North Wales Police. Mobilising 40 specialists over 25 days to search the skies, land, and sea, for weeks the country s eyes were fixed on the area where the smiling and energetic vet had lived and worked.
A double killer who was told he would never leave jail after murdering his neighbour and a Sunday school teacher had died in prison following a positive Covid-19 test.
David Cook, 74, had been admitted to hospital on December 7 after testing positive for coronavirus at the jail.
Cook, who was one of around 70 prisoners serving a whole life sentence in England and Wales, killed a Sunday school teacher in 1987 and neighbour Leonard Hill, 64, in June 2011.
David Cook (pictured), 74, had been admitted to hospital on December 7 after testing positive for coronavirus at the jail
He was found unconscious in his bed in the healthcare unit at high security HMP Frankland, Brasside, Durham.