Alisa Dmitrijeva was last seen in King's Lynn's Friar's Street, on August 31. Her body was found on woodland on the Royal Estate at Sandringham, on New Year's Day.

Friar's Street winds through the area of King's Lynn once occupied by monasteries and friaries, where learned monks debated navigation and the mysteries of the cosmos.

Today it looked too peaceful to be one of the few pieces of the puzzle detectives hold, as they begin building a picture of Alisa Dmitrijeva's last movements.

The 17-year-old Latvian-born student was last seen here, shortly after midnight on August 31. She was due to enroll at the nearby College of West Anglia the following day.

Friar's Street is a narrow, winding street, made up mainly of two-story terrace houses.

Here and there, signs made by children at the primary school that backs onto it warn drivers to slow down. Others warn would-be burglars of property marking.

Across the sprawling Hillington Square estate, which borders the street, was the saddest sign of all.

Alisa's face looked out at passers-by from a missing poster, in the window of an Eastern European off-licence.