Missing Amy Gerard update: Autopsy results on woman's body are 'inconclusive'
Forensic examinations to continue in Tenerife to identify body thought to be missing Amy Gerard
Gerard Couzens
Amy had worked at Grimsby Auditorium as a youngster
An autopsy on a body believed to be that of missing Cleethorpes killer whale trainer Amy Gerard has proved inconclusive.
Forensic experts failed to find the cause of death or establish the identity of the woman pulled out of the sea off Tenerife near the spot where Amy, 28, disappeared last Thursday after leaving an Irish pub.
It is believed injuries on the body, believed to have been caused after death, have hindered the post-mortem and formal identification.
Police said ahead of the autopsy, which took place on Wednesday morning, that "all lines of inquiry" remained open in the ongoing investigation into Amy Gerard's disappearance.
DNA tests will confirm if the body is hers, although investigators have not specified how long they will take to come back.
A police source added: "Assuming the dead woman is Amy which is probably the case, all lines of inquiry remain open, including the line of investigation of gender violence, the line of investigation of an accidental death, the line of investigation of a violent crime such as a mugging and the line of investigation of the death being the result of a suicide.
"All these lines of inquiry remain open."
Amy Louise Gerard from Cleethorpes has been missing in Tenerife for a week (Image: Solarpix.com)
University-educated Amy, who had moved to Tenerife from her family home in Cleethorpes, disappeared shortly after midnight last Thursday after leaving Molly Malone pub in Puerto de la Cruz where she had been at a friend's birthday.
She was filmed just before she vanished looking happy and relaxed as she danced in a circle alongside German boyfriend Dennis Kissling to the Pogues song Fairytale of New York.
Amy and Dennis, colleagues at Tenerife marine theme park Loro Parque, went their separate ways after leaving the pub.
Mum Julie, 59, and sister Chloe, 30, flew to Tenerife with Chloe's fiancé after learning of her disappearance.
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The Lucie Blackman Trust, set up by the family of Lucie Blackman after she was killed in Tokyo by a millionaire Japanese businessman, also revealed it was assisting Amy's loved ones.
Her disappearance was described as totally "out of character" by family and friends, with work colleagues insisting she had given no indication anything might be worrying her.
Amy Gerard was seen dancing at an Irish bar in Puerto de la Cruz just moments before she disappeared (Image: Facebook)
Police were also told Amy, who was estranged from her personal trainer husband Ryan Docherty who is currently back in the UK, was not a big drinker and had not looked inebriated or tipsy when she left the pub.
The spot where Amy was found is thought to be along the route she would have taken to walk back to her home near Loro Parque from Molly Malone.
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