DETECTIVES hunting the killer of shopworker Jenny Nicholl have launched a fresh appeal for the teenager's missing possessions.

Police still want to find the 19-year-old's mobile phone and jewellery box.

The appeal came after search teams discovered Jenny's stereo and teddy bear last week.

Detective Inspector Pete Martin, the officer leading the murder investigation, said: "Forensic tests are being carried out on the stereo and the teddy.

"Officers are combing a wide area of countryside near Richmond and will continue to do so.

"Other items they are looking for are Jenny's mobile phone and an aluminium box she kept jewellery and other possessions in.

"I am asking anyone to get in touch if they know where they might be."

Officers believe the killer used Jenny's Nokia 5210 phone to send texts to her family and friends in the weeks after her disappearance.

Friends received messages sent from the Carlisle area of Cumbria on July 9.

Five days later, her father received a text sent from the Jedburgh area, in the Scottish Borders.

The text messages included information that police say could only be known by someone close to her.

Yesterday, police continued their search of the Sandbeck Plantation, on the outskirts of Richmond, North Yorkshire, where the bear and stereo were found.

The site is less than a mile from where Jenny's Rover car was found abandoned on July 4, last year, at the Holly Hill Inn.

Anyone with information is asked to call police on (01423) 539334.