Police searching for teenager Becky Watts have dug up a garden four miles from where she was last seen, it emerged last night.
Officers have spent two days combing the property and its garden for clues as the hunt for the 16-year-old intensified.
Forensic teams were spotted carrying digging equipment into the semi-detached house and removing items in evidence bags, including a bin-shaped object.
They also carried out an extensive search of a black Vauxhall Zafira which was parked in the street, before towing it away.
Last night it remained unclear how the house is linked to Becky, who has been missing for 11 days.
As well as scouring her family home, police also carried out forensic searches in the garden of a third property in Bristol yesterday.
Two officers guarded the door to the terraced house a mile from Becky’s home.
The 5ft 4in GCSE student was last seen by her stepmother, before leaving home with a bag containing her mobile phone and laptop.
Becky’s father Darren Galsworthy, 51, and stepmother Angie-Mae, 49, said her disappearance is ‘totally out of character’ and they ‘fear the worst’ as each day passes.She left without money or a change of clothes and police have had no positive sightings of her since. Her family did not report her missing for 28 hours.
Two people were arrested on Saturday in connection with the disappearance but police refused to reveal their identity, age or gender.
Last night, both individuals were still in police custody. It is not known what link, if any, they have to the property in Southmead, in the north of Bristol, which was being searched.
Detectives carried out house-to-house inquiries in the street and showed residents photographs of Becky in the hope of jogging their memories.Neighbours said the property was privately rented by a family with two or three children who are reportedly staying in a nearby hotel.
One neighbour, who asked not to be named, said they believed the garden of the house was being dug up.
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