DETECTIVES hunting the vicious killer of Bolton prostitute Angela Heyes are checking out possible vital new leads.

A witness has come forward to say that he knows Angela was in the King William IV pub on Manchester Road on January 5 - two days after the previous last reported sighting of her alive.

The witness, who asked not to be identified, told the BEN that on January 5 Angela called at the pub, one of her known regular haunts, and dropped off £500 plus her cash card.

Detectives are now questioning the witness and the landlord to establish the validity of the information.

Det Supt John Waterworth, who is leading the murder hunt, said that if the story is correct it could prove to be "very significant."

Previously the last time Angela was seen alive was on January 3 when she was seen in her Park Road bedsit by a neighbour.

And it also raises the question of where she got the money.

Officers are continuing to sift through a mountain of information which flooded into their incident room yesterday following an appeal for help in the BEN.

Many people have been calling into the mobile incident room which has been set up near Bolton School at the junction with Park Road.

"We are very pleased with the response but we could do with more," said Supt Waterworth.

He revealed that 33-year-old Angela was receiving treatment for depression at the time of her death.

Her nearly naked body, which had been strangled and subjected to a violent sexual attack, was found dumped on the moors near Egerton on Sunday by a cyclist.

Angela was known to have regularly frequented several Bolton town centre pubs, also used the alias Shelley and sometimes wore a blonde wig.

Anyone who has seen her this month is asked to contact the Castle Street incident room on 0161 856 5962, call in at the mobile caravan near Bolton School or telephone the free Crimestoppers hotline on 0800 555 111.

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