DAWN: Car is pulled from lake (From Swindon Advertiser)

DAWN: Car is pulled from lake

11:59am Saturday 10th November 2007 in News

POLICE have pulled a car from a lake in the search for clues about the killing of Dawn Williams.

Officers were on the bank of the lake in Cerney Wick, near Cricklade.

The black Range Rover is believed to have entered the lake shortly before police found Dawn Williams' body in Fosse Close, Rodbourne.

Two police divers from Avon and Somerset Police's underwater recovery unit worked with detectives from Wiltshire Police's major investigation unit to recover the car.

The divers attached straps to the vehicle, which was completely submerged in the two-and-a-half metre deep water.

A crane was then used to drag the waterlogged Range Rover back to shore.

Once most of the water had drained out of the car, which had all four windows open, officers retrieved a Nokia mobile phone from the front seat passenger's foot well.

Det Sgt Alan Strike, leading the Cerney Wick side of the investigation, said: "We have pulled a Range Rover out of the lake. This is part of the current investigation into the murder in Rodbourne.

"The vehicle recovery is in connection to the 42-year-old man who is in custody having been arrested on suspicion of murder."

The owner of the lake, who is currently building luxury homes on the site, said that no-one had been around when the Range Rover went into the water on Thursday evening.

"When our guys got on site this morning the police were here and had been here all night," he said.

"They phoned us and said Something has happened. You best get down here'."

The Range Rover was taken away for further examination.