POLICE investigating the murder of estate agent Suzy Lamplugh are searching a property.

Convicted killer John Cannan, also suspected of killing Bournemouth insurance clerk Sandra Court, is the prime suspect in the case of Suzy Lamplugh.

It has been reported that officers are searching the back garden of a property in the West Midlands which used to belong to Cannan’s mother.

Sandra Court’s body was found in a water-filled ditch on the Avon Causeway in May 1986.

Two months later, in a case which gripped the nation, Suzy Lamplugh went missing after going to meet a client who called himself Mr Kipper in Fulham, west London.

Miss Lamplugh, 25, was presumed murdered and declared dead in 1994, but her body has never been found.

The Metropolitan Police has confirmed premises in Sutton Coldfield in Birmingham are being searched.

No-one has ever been charged in connection with Miss Lamplugh’s disappearance, but in 2002 police named Cannan as their prime suspect.

Cannan is currently in prison after being convicted of the murder of Bristol newly-wed Shirley Banks in October 1987.

Following his conviction it emerged that Cannan had told a prison visitor that the person who killed Shirley Banks also murdered Suzy Lamplugh and another woman.

Sandra Court was strangled after a night out to celebrate her last day as an employee at Ambassador Life, a subsidiary of Abbey Life.

She was on the verge of a new life as a nanny in Majorca when her life was cut tragically short.

The final day of Sandra’s life was dominated by leaving celebrations, which ended at Steppes nightclub in St Swithun’s Road, Bournemouth.

A taxi driver took her to her sister’s home in Downton Close, Throop just after 3am and she told him she would wait outside because her sister was out.

But a group of teenagers on a Duke of Edinburgh Award scheme walk later that morning discovered her fully clothed body in a ditch.