APRIL 8: Amanda is reported missing after she fails to return home from giving her boyfriend a lift to his home in Calne. Her green Rover Metro is found by her mother in a car park at the West Swindon district centre
APRIL 9: The press is alerted to help in the search by appealing to the public for information
APRIL 10: Experts from Wiltshire Search and Rescue start combing West Swindon. Fears for the young woman's safety grow and a major incident room is set up at Westlea Police Station
APRIL 12: Plasterer Ian Cortis is arrested and questioned by detectives who suspect him of kidnapping Amanda. He is detained for 36 hours
APRIL 13: During the evening Det Chief Supt Paul Howlett is granted a 36-hour extension to allow more time for questioning. Earlier in the day a forensic team had searched a building site at The Knoll, just outside Malmesbury. Detectives take a man hidden under a blanket to the site
APRIL 14: Police question shoppers at the West Swindon centre. Posters printed by the Evening Advertiser are put up and handed out in the area as well as in Purton and Calne
APRIL 15: Amanda has been missing for a week. A press conference is held in the car park where her car was found and a search starts at The Knoll. At teatime a specialist body recovery dog indicates something might be there. Ian Cortis is released without charge because police do not have enough evidence to charge him.
APRIL 16: The body recovery dog returns to The Knoll and pinpoints a body within minutes. Later it is confirmed that Amanda has been found. Meanwhile the man suspected of kidnapping her, Ian Cortis, has been found hanging from a beam at a house in Calne. It emerges that the father-of-two had been convicted of two rapes 16 years ago in Cornwall and served an eight-year jail sentence
APRIL 22: Inquests are opened and adjourned at Trowbridge Town Hall into the deaths of both Amanda and Ian Cortis
MAY 21: Amanda's funeral is held in Purton
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