Missing girl: Search off
2003-07-11 11:13
Cape Town - Police have temporarily called off the search for an eight-year-old girl who went missing from her grandparents home in Ottery, Cape Town, on Sunday.
The station commander of the Grassy Park police station, Superintendent William Pienaar, said the search for Sasha-Leigh Crook had been called off temporarily "because there were no new leads".
However, police were keeping a sharp lookout for the girl during normal policing operations.
During the past few days a team of more than 100 people including police, city police and navy volunteers from the Chrysalis Academy had scoured the area for signs of Sasha-Leigh.
Four sniffer dogs, one highly trained from Oudtshoorn, had also been brought in to help in the search.
"We will convene a search party again once we get new leads," Pienaar said.
Pienaar said police had also acted on suggestion given to the family by psychics "which is all the information we are getting at the moment".
- SAPA