More than 100 callers have come forward with information in the hunt for the killer of Cornish mum Lyn Bryant in 1998.

On Monday Devon and Cornwall Police launched a fresh public appeal for information to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the 40-year-old’s death.

Lyn Bryant was killed on Tuesday 20 October 1998 as she walked the family dog near her home in Ruan High Lanes on The Roseland.

Her body was found in a gateway of a field on an unclassified road between Ruan High Lanes Methodist Chapel and Treviles Manor. She had been stabbed a number of times in a prolonged attack.

Since the fresh appeal on Monday, more than 100 calls and messages have been received by the investigation team via the incident room and online police portal. This compares to around 60 responses overall from the 10th anniversary appeal.

The renewed appeal has so far generated nine new viable lines of enquiry which are being progressed by detectives from the Major Crime Investigation Team.

Six of the leads relate to names of already known individuals who may now be asked to provide a DNA sample for elimination purposes.

A full forensic review in 2015 and scientific advances have brought about a critical breakthrough– a new partial DNA profile believed to belong to Lyn’s killer.