DETECTIVES hope new forensic technology will help solve the murder of a prostitute whose body was found in Otley.

The brutal killing of Yvonne Fitt is one of several Bradford district murders now being reviewed by West Yorkshire Police's cold case investigation team.

The decomposing body of the 33-year-old, from Manningham, was found in a shallow grave at Norwood Edge, near Otley, in September 1992.

She had died from multiple stab wounds.

She was thought to have been buried for at least four months before her body was discovered, meaning she had to be identified by medical records and X-rays.

The cold case review team will use advances in forensic science to try to identify who was responsible for her death. The team has been boosted by 35 new investigators to help crack historic unsolved murders and serious sexual assaults.

Detective Superintendent Mark Ridley, who is leading the investigation, said: "There is a chance that allegiances might have changed in the years which have passed, and that the person who holds the vital information could now be in a position to speak to us and tell us everything they know."

Anyone with information is asked to contact the Protective Services (Crime) Department on 101, or Crimestoppers, anonymously, on 0800 555111.