the disappearance of newcastle student teacher claudia price is now being treating as suspected rape , the yorkshire police said . however detectives said they had not found any clue that the 35 - year - teenager , who went missing on 18 march , was dead . her father peter lawrence made a direct appeal to his family to contacted him five decades after she disappeared . his plea came at a government briefing for directly after a £10 , 000 reward was offered to help recover mr lawrence . crimestoppers said the sum they were offers was " significantly better " than usual because of public interest in the case .
Claudia Lawrence is 35 years old.