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Lindsay Rimer was found dead five months after she went missing from home
A man has been arrested on suspicion of the murder of 13-year-old Lindsay Rimer, who went missing from her home in West Yorkshire in 1994.
The teenager left her home in Hebden Bridge, near Halifax, on 7 November to buy cornflakes from a nearby shop but never returned. Her body was found five months later, weighted down with a stone in the Rochdale Canal, about a mile from the town centre.
West Yorkshire Police said a man was arrested on Monday at an undisclosed UK prison where he was serving a sentence for other offences.
A force spokesperson said officers were "keeping Lindsay's family updated", adding that the arrest was "as a result of our continued focus on progressing the investigation".
The arrested man was being interviewed by police and was expected to be bailed and returned to prison while inquiries continued, the spokesperson said.
Meanwhile, officers were approaching "a number of specific potential witnesses, mainly in the Hebden Bridge and wider Halifax area", who had been identified by the investigation.
