POLICE hunting the killer of a teenager who was stabbed to death in a churchyard were questioning a man yesterday.
Earlier, another man was released after being questioned about the murder of Miss Katrina Taylor, 19, who was found on Friday at St Nicholas' Church in Dyke Road, Brighton, East Sussex.
The teenager, who was apparently preparing to sleep rough in the cemetery when she was attacked, played the part of a murder victim in a BBC Crimewatch reconstruction almost 10 years ago.
She played nine-year-old Nicola Fellows who, with schoolfriend Karen Hadaway, was found strangled and left in a den in woods at Wild Park, Moulsecoomb, Brighton, in October 1986.
Brighton builder Russell Bishop, 30, was acquitted after the case came to court.
Bishop was later jailed for life for the kidnap, indecent assault, and attempted murder of a seven-year-old girl at the Devil's Dyke beauty spot in Brighton in 1990.
Miss Taylor, who had an eight-month-old daughter, Kiya, had six stab wounds to the chest. She was found by a man walking his dog.
She had been living at the Brighton Bail Centre in Marine Parade, after being charged with burglary last month, but had not returned there on Thursday evening.
Police are still searching for the murder weapon, thought to be a small kitchen knife.
Miss Taylor's family suggested during a news conference on Saturday that she was killed in a revenge attack.
Her aunt, Ms Susan Tully, 40, said: ``Katrina had got into trouble but she was getting away from her past.
``She just wanted to be a good mum and look after her baby. Her death has destroyed her family. They are devastated.''
She said: ``After the burglary, men came down from London in cars wanting to find Katrina. They banged on the door and told her mum Kathleen they wanted to get her.
``They said they were going to kill her. One time they gave her sister Kerry who lives across the road a good hiding and hit her.''
Kathleen was too distressed to appear at the news conference.
Her father Steve has not lived in the family house on the Moulsecoomb estate for several years.
Detective Inspector George Smith said: ``We are taking very seriously the line of inquiry that some people came down from London.
``We are still at an early stage of the murder investigation and are following up a number of leads.''
He also called on the local drug community to come forward if they could help. Miss Taylor had been a heroin user and a syringe was found on a headstone in the graveyard.
The vicar of the eleventh-century church, Father Derek Moody, said prayers at service for the dead woman.
He said: ``All ground is holy but when such a brutal incident has happened in the grounds of a church it is extremely shocking.''
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