The family of Bradford teenager Donna Healey might soon be able to finally lay her to rest - 16 years after she was last seen alive.

Detectives probing Donna's death are hoping an inquest will be resumed soon, allowing her funeral to take place.

Donna, then 18, was last seen in March 1988. Her partly-clothed and mummified body was found nearly three years later in an overgrown garden in Chapel Allerton, Leeds.

The cause of her death has never been established.

Police believe she probably died in 1988 and her body was then kept in an airtight environment before being dumped.

Donna's body was only identified last year after DNA breakthroughs enabled a sample for her to be matched with saliva from her mother, Lorraine Wilkinson.

An inquest was opened in 1991 after the discovery of her body but has never been resumed because of the lack of a positive identification.

Detective Inspector Chris Binns, of Bradford South CID, who is leading the investigation, said he was waiting to hear from the West Yorkshire Coroner.

He said: "Donna has now been identified and I am hoping the inquest will reopen soon so the body can be officially identified and released.

"It has been a very difficult few years for Donna's family but hopefully they will be able to lay her to rest before much longer."

Forensic experts are continuing the to examin Donna's clothing, as well as particles of grass and dirt recovered from the scene.

Earlier this month the results of toxicology tests revealed there were no traces of morphine or other drugs in Donna's body.

Officers are following up more than 20 calls from people who called up BBC's Crimewatch programme earlier this year with information about Donna, whose family lived in Roxby Street, Little Horton.

The teenager had been working as a prostitute in the Chapeltown area of Leeds before her death and was last seen alive when she appeared before Leeds magistrates on a prostitution charge.