MORE than1,000 people were stopped and interviewed in one of the biggest ever murder inquiry police reconstructions last night.

Locals and people passing through Hebden Bridge were questioned by 150 uniformed officers, special constabulary officers and detectives investigating the murder of 13-year-old Lindsay Rimer.

She vanished a year ago today after buying cornflakes at a Spar shop.

Her body was missing for almost six months before being found in the canal nearby. Police are no nearer finding her killer.

The man leading the hunt, Detective Superintendent Tony Whittle, said last night's reconstruction was the best chance of jogging the memory of someone who might have a vital piece of information about what happened a year ago.

Road checks continued well into the night and the information gathered is being fed into the police computer database to be studied over the next several days.

Thirty-five detectives joined 120 uniformed officers and Specials in interviewing people who had been asked to follow their movements as closely as possible to a year ago.

Police have also praised the courage of Lindsay's sister Kate, who for a second time retraced the last known footsteps of her sister.

Wearing identical clothes to those worn by Lindsay on the fatal night, Kate walked from her home to the Trades Club and then on to the Spar shop in Crown Street, where she was filmed by a security camera buying cornflakes at 10.20pm.

Det Supt Whittle said police had suggested using an actress but that Kate had been adamant that she wanted to do her bit in the hunt for her sister's murderer.

Police believe that if Lindsay accepted a lift, it would have been from someone she knew or someone she possibly met at the town's bonfire the previous weekend.

Members of Lindsay's family, including mum and dad Geraldine and Gordon, handed out leaflets at the bonfire celebrations appealing for infor- mation.

Mrs Rimer said: "If anyone is keeping information back in order to protect family or a friend we urge them to come forward and to tell the police what they know."

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