Murdered Tyrone teenager Arlene Arkinson's family tonight urged police not to delay new searches of woodland where her body may be buried.
As the schoolgirl's sister Kathleen prepared for her first meeting with the officers now heading the investigation, she claimed detectives were alerted by telephone tip-off to a desolate area near Scraghy Mountain, close to Castlederg.
The site is less than four miles from where child killer Robert Howard dropped off friends after taking them with Arlene to a disco on the night she disappeared 11 years ago, according to Ms Arkinson.
"It's a scary area, you could take a car in and dispose of a body," she said.
"It gave me the shivers when we were taken up there.
"I just wish the police would hurry up. We'll get a digger in and search it ourselves if they don't."
Ms Arkinson will press Detective Superintendent Raymond Murray for assurances over the investigation when they meet in Castlederg tomorrow.
Arlene (15) disappeared from her home in the village in August 1994.
Howard (61) a drifter with a vile 40 year career of child abuse and rape, was the last person to see her alive.
He had driven Arlene across the Border with his girlfriend's daughter and her partner for drinks in Bundoran, Co Donegal.
But Howard was cleared last June of her murder, despite already being found guilty of killing London teenager Hannah Williams (14) two years earlier.
The jury at his trial in Belfast were not told of his previous convictions, a decision that outraged Arlene's family.
Since then police have carried out further searches on either side of the Border.
Bogland down a laneway off the Drumquin Road, near Castlederg, was examined last October.
A team of scientists were brought in, along with a police sniffer dog from South Yorkshire specially trained to locate human remains.
So far no trace of the schoolgirl has been found, but her sister said a man who claims to have been in the area at the time Arlene went missing has directed police to the Scraghy area.
"At least we know there are still people out there genuinely trying to help us find Arlene," Kathleen said.
"This is the beginning of another year and when August comes Arlene will be gone 12 years.
"We will not give up, but this is ripping the family apart."
A Police Service of Northern Ireland spokesman could not confirm tonight if searches around Scraghy were planned.
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