A man has been arrested on suspicion of murdering a teenager who left home to buy cereal more than 30 years ago.

Lindsay Rimer, 13, vanished in 1994 after nipping to her local Spar in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire.

After several months of searching, Lindsay’s body was found, weighed down by a large rock, in the Rochdale Canal, about two miles from her home.

Her murderer has been on the run ever since.

Today, West Yorkshire Police announced that a man had been arrested on suspicion of the teenager’s murder.

The man was arrested by detectives from the Police Homicide and Major Enquiry Team at an undisclosed UK prison, where he is serving a sentence for other offences. Police have revealed he is currently being interviewed over the course of today and tomorrow, and is expected to be bail

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