Eleanor Neale

It doesn't appear as though she's being followed or that someone's watching her.

But after that first 15 minutes,

the footage of her journey becomes inconsistent.

Not all of it is caught on camera since some of the walk she did was on residential roads or through public parks that didn't have cameras.

Police needed to figure out as accurately as they could at what point during the walk that something had gone wrong and slowly it began to piece together.

Police had asked an estate agent's office close to Sarah's home if they could send over their security footage and they did but Sarah didn't appear on it at all.

Now this was definite proof that Sarah hadn't made it home that night because I guess there was always the possibility that she might have gotten home safely from that walk and then gone back out again or something could have happened to her at home but now they knew for sure that she had disappeared in this rather small time frame

and from those streets around Clapham.

And if anything, this actually made it even more concerning and even more difficult for the investigation because Sarah's route home would have possibly involved her taking a shortcut through Clapham Common, which is this giant 220 acre public park with wooded areas and bodies of water and very few cameras.

Within 48 hours of her being reported missing,

The search had intensified to a full scale search and rescue operation, focusing mainly on Clapham Common, that giant piece of land.

The whole thing was meticulously combed through and the same went for the surrounding streets.

You know, drain covers were lifted, bins were searched, but there was nothing, not even a slight clue as to Sarah's whereabouts.

Police got in touch with her phone network provider and they found that the last time that her phone had been used was on a street called Cavendish Road, just off of Clapham Common.

CCTV from that road shows her walking with her phone to her ear, presumably speaking with her boyfriend.

And that was the last thing she did on her phone.

There had been no activity at all from Sarah's phone since.

it was becoming horrifyingly clear to her loved ones and to the public that Sarah had not gone willingly.

She had been taken.

In fact, further investigations into that specific area discovered that in the months leading up to Sarah's disappearance, several women had reported being followed along those exact same roads.