United Kingdom NICOLA PAYNE: Missing from Coventry, England - 14 Dec 1991 - Age 18

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Nicola Payne
Missing since December 14, 1991 from Coventry, England, United Kingdom
Classification: Endangered Missing


Vital Statistics

• Date Of Birth: about 1973
• Age at Time of Disappearance: 18 years old
• Height and Weight at Time of Disappearance: 5'3".
• Distinguishing Characteristics: White female. Brown hair; brown eyes; medium build.
• Clothing: Green trousers, a purple T-shirt, pixie boots and was carrying the keys.

Circumstances of Disappearance
On December 14, 1991, just after mid day, Nicola left her boyfriend's house in Winston Avenue, Wood End, Coventry to the home she shared with her 7-month-old son and her parents in Woodway Close, Woodway Park. It is a distance of about half a mile and Nicola took the short cut across playing fields, known locally as the Black Pad. The walk should have taken only about six minutes.
Nicola never arrived and has not been seen since.
Nicola was moving in with her boyfriend at the time, and was supposed to go out to pick up clothes for their seven-month-old son at her parent's house.

2007 West Midlands Police arrested a 37-year-old man for her murder.

Investigators
If you have any information concerning this case, please contact:

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Source Information:
Independent Online Edition
Nicola Payne
GM TV BBC
Evening Telegraph 11/10/07
UK & World Latest News 11/1/07



Additional sources:

Missing Mother Nicola Payne | Findnicolapayne

Nicola Payne took a short walk on Saturday 14th December 1991 and was never seen again. Join the campaign to www.findNicolaPayne.co.uk

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List of unsolved murders in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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Timeline of Nicola Payne disappearance

The key moments in the long-running investigation into the 1991 disappearance of the young mother.

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NICOLA PAYNE: Missing from Coventry, England since 14 Dec 1991 - Age 18

 

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Nicola Payne: Vigil held to mark 30th anniversary of Coventry mum's disappearance

It is 30 years since the young mother went missing and her family say they want to bring her home.

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Nicola Payne: Vigil held to mark 30th anniversary of Coventry mum's disappearance​

14 December 2021

A vigil has been held to remember a young mother on the 30th anniversary of her disappearance.

Nicola Payne, then 18, went missing close to her parents' house in Coventry on 14 December 1991.

Despite years of investigation and searches by a specialist team, Ms Payne's body has never been found.

Her relatives say they have resigned themselves to the fact she is no longer alive, but that they are desperate to know what happened.

"We're not chasing to point blame, we're not chasing to put people in prison - all we want is my sister home so my mum and dad can bury her and have a place to go and grieve," said Nicola's brother, Nigel Payne.

Ms Payne, who had a seven-month-old son, went missing as she walked from her boyfriend's address to her parents' house in December 1991.

The reward for any information leading to finding Ms Payne was raised to £100,000 by an anonymous donor in January 2018.
Her family had also hired a private forensic search team to examine land around Coombe Country Park, near Coventry in the same month, but found nothing.

A stretch of canal was also searched in February 2020 after police received "new information".

Issuing a fresh plea for information to mark the anniversary, her father said the family were still determined to bring her home.

"If there are any remains bring them back home so I know where she is [and] put her to rest," said John Payne.

"It's just the not knowing."

 

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Mum of missing woman dies without ever finding out what happened to daughter

Marilyn Payne has confirmed to have passed away at the age of 77-years-old on Tuesday without ever finding out what happened to her daughter who disappeared in 1991.

www.dailyrecord.co.uk

By
Benjamin Lynch and Nicola Croal
12:07, 8 MAR 2023

The heartbroken mum of missing woman Nicola Payne has sadly died without ever finding out what happened to her daughter who vanished in 1991. Marilyn Payne is confirmed to have passed away at the age of 77 on Tuesday, the Mirror reports.

Her family described her as a determined and brave mother who 'never gave up' on her missing child who vanished over thirty years ago in Coventry at 18-years-old. Writing on the Find Nicola Payne Facebook page, her family said: “Nicola’s family are devastated to announce the death of her mum, Marilyn Payne.

 

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Nicola Payne: what's happened since she went missing 31 years

Her tragic story is about to be thrust into the spotlight again on Prime Video

www.coventrytelegraph.net

By Claire Harrison
13:19, 22 MAY 2023
UPDATED13:20, 22 MAY 2023

For more than three decades, the disappearance of Nicola Payne has been an investigation that has cast a shadow over the city. It remains one of the longest unsolved investigations in the UK.

What happened to her remains at the forefront of the minds of her heartbroken family every single day but her story will soon be thrust into the national spotlight once more. A new docu-series, The Never Ending Murder, will be streamed on Prime Video from May 23.

One of her brothers, Nigel, told CoventryLive that the four part series will 'highlight things that people don't know about the court cases and other different things'. As well as the court case, which saw Nigel Barwell and Thomas O’Reilly both found not guilty of her murder following a five-week trial in 2015, the Never Ending Murder will also feature detectives involved in the investigation as well as members of the Payne family.

 

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