18.03.2009
7.15pm
At approx. 7.15pm a group crosses the entrance to Heworth Place on Heworth road from the direction of Claudia's house, closely followed by a figure in dark clothing.
This figure proceeds into Heworth Place and is out of sight of CCTV for 1 minute 8 seconds before returning back towards Heworth road.
As the figure returns to Heworth road, a person in a light jacket appears and crosses Heworth Place, heading in the direction of Claudia's house.
The figure pauses and then resumes their journey back to Heworth Road once the light jacket person is out of sight and turns right back towards Claudia's house.
18.03.2009
6.08pm, 6.28pm & 6.42pm
Claudia sent a number of texts to a friend in Cyprus.
6.08pm - "How ru nug? making the most of your spare timex"
6.28pm - "OK, ta. Weather v nice, have looked for a hol there, so expensive, mite have to be September time unless I can get a cheap last minute, bloody kids holx"
6.42pm - "Even flights are expensive, there's cheap hols to other places, just Cyprus expensive! Typical .I'll keep looking and let you knowX"
*Daily Express March 10th 2013
18.03.2009
3.05pm
Claudia posts a letter and Melrosegate Post office on her way home.
18.03.2009 2.31pm
Claudia leaves her work at The University of York - Goodricke College in the direction of her home.
Final 24 hours before her Disappearance
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We look forward to building on this as and when more information becomes available.
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18.03.2009
9.01pm
A bus travels down Heworth Road from East Parade at 9.01pm. During the footage recorded by a camera on board the bus it passes 4 vehicles all parked in close proximity to Claudia's house.
As it turns into Heworth road it passes a white van parked on the right hand side.
Continuing down Heworth road it passes the Nags Head pub and then two parked vehicles, a pick-up truck and an unidentified vehicle behind, parked outside Claudia's house.
The bus then continues down Heworth road and passes a stationary white transit van with it's lights on, facing the opposite direction.
18.03.2009
8.23pm
Claudia sends a text to her friend.
"Bloody Hell, I've got to do 12 days on the trot, early mornings too. No fun for me!
*Daily Mirror 29th March 2009
18.03.2009
8.00pm
Joan calls Claudia and discusses travel arrangements for a wedding. Location, Location, Location is on the TV in the background as they talk.
18.03.2009
7.20pm
A call takes place between Claudia and her father Peter Lawrence.
19.03.2009
5.50am
Similar to the night before a figure appears from Heworth road and heads into Heworth Court. This is the space to introduce the Services section. Briefly describe the types of services offered and highlight any special benefits or features.
19.03.2009
5.42am
At 5.42am a silver Ford Focus is seen on CCTV travelling down Heworth road and braking sharply as it reaches the area between Claudia's house and the Nags Head pub.
By this time had Claudia been walking to work she should have just left already to arrive at 6am.
19.03.2009
5.00am
5am- 6am represents the a one hour window where at this stage Claudia was expected to start getting ready and would walk to Goodricke College.
It is believed if Claudia had intended to walk to Goodricke College it would have taken approx 31 minutes to make the journey and expected to leave around
5.30am.
18.03.2009
9.15pm
A text is sent to Claudia from the same friend in Cyprus. It is not know whether this text was read by Claudia and she did not answer it.
19.03.2009
12.10pm
Claudia's mobile phone (Silver Samsung D900) is deliberately switched off. The location of the phone at this time is within a 9 mile area between Heworth/York University and Tockwith Village.
19.03.2009
10.00am
Claudia's manager rings her phone and as there is no answer leaves an answerphone message. The location of the phone connects with a cell site close to the university.
19.03.2009
6.00am
Claudia's shift at Goodricke College
(Roger Kirk Centre) started at 6am and she did not arrive.
* This image was taken from the Geograph project collection. See this photograph's page on the Geograph website for the photographer's contact details. The copyright on this image is owned by DS Pugh and is licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license.
19.03.2009
5.55am
The man in the light coloured top seen in the previous CCTV footage can then be seen walking past Cost Cutter on the East Parade & Dales Lane junction according to North Yorkshire Police.
This was a few minutes after the CCTV footage and this man has never been identified.
*The Press 15th May 2009