The toddler went missing on her second birthday in a German supermarket in 1981
The Lee family with Katrice as a baby with her mother Sharon father Richard and sister Natasha of Paderborn, Katrice’s parents were supermarket shopping with their daughter and her aunt, Wendy. At the checkout, after the child’s mother, Sharon, realised she had forgotten crisps she asked Wendy to watch the toddler for less than a minute.
The Lee family, originally from Hartlepool, were shopping in a Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes shopping complex buying items for her birthday party when Katrice disappeared. In 2013, Mr Lee said Royal Military Police officers had all but discarded this theory after investigators returned to the river, saying: “The water theory has now been ruled as less likely which is what my family always believed from day one.
Mr Lee said: “I believe the whole investigation has been a complete and utter sham.We felt we’ve always been a bottom feeder in a fish tank.”In the first instance, people came forward who had never been interviewed, including a young man who had been standing behind the Lees at the checkout, and one of the checkout women.
Two years afterwards Royal Military Police arrested a former serviceman in connection with the case, but he was then released two days afterwards.“As with parents in all cases of missing children, we want a happy ending but that might not be the case and we just hope we will get answers.
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