Carmen cops want to rip up concrete

Carmen Thomas hasn't been seen since June 27. Photo / Supplied

An inner-city Auckland construction site has become the focus of police investigating the murder of missing escort Carmen Thomas.

Detectives reportedly want to dig up recently laid concrete at a site being developed by the firm Mansons TCLM.

Mansons has two office projects going on in Victoria St - at 167-191, the Telecom corporate headquarters due to be finished next year, and at 162.

Prime News reported last night that police had put a request to Mansons.

Spokesman Culum Manson said the company was co-operating with the police but would not comment further.

There was no sign of police staff at the two sites last night.

Ms Thomas was last seen on June 27 at the Greenlane Countdown. She was reported missing on July 13.

Her car was later found parked in Hamilton with traces of her blood inside. Police believe it was dumped there on July 7 or 8.

Meanwhile, officers have recovered a wheelie bin that had been missing from Ms Thomas' Ngapuhi Rd home in Remuera. It was found in Auckland on September 1 but detectives won't say where.

The Herald on Sunday reported yesterday that police had also taken away another wheelie bin for examination after a construction-site worker alerted them to a bad smell coming from it.

The paper said the results, however, were "unremarkable".

The bin is believed to have been empty when police took it away.

Police spokeswoman Noreen Hegarty said she could not comment on "operational specifics".

"But we do follow up on information. We get a lot of information and we have to assess it."

Asked if police had received any information about newly laid concrete at any Mansons site, Ms Hegarty said she could not comment.