Police start dig in hunt for missing boys
Last updated at 11:19 14 November 2006
Police investigating the disappearance of two young boys 10 years ago have today begun to unearth land near where the pair vanished.
David Spencer, 13, and Patrick Warren, 11, went missing from their homes in Chelmsley Wood near Birmingham on Boxing Day in 1996.
Diggers are being drafted in to search the area of land as part of Operation Stenley.
A spokeswoman for West Midlands Police said the force's Operations Support Unit would be carrying out the search, which will also include sieving the area.
The boys vanished after going out on a bicycle one of the boys had received as a Christmas present. Their bodies have never been found.
Detectives announced earlier this month that they were questioning a convicted paedophile and murderer about their disappearance.
Brian Field, a farm labourer who was living in the Chelmsley Wood area around the time boys went missing, is serving a life sentence for the rape and murder of a 14-year-old boy.
The 70-year-old inmate was brought to Birmingham for questioning from Full Sutton Prison in York at the beginning of the month.
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