The 70-strong police search for Libby has entered its fourth day today after she went missing in Hull on Thursday night
COPS were last night searching a house in the hunt for missing student Libby Squire who vanished after getting home from a night out.
The 21-year-old philosophy student was "falling over drunk" as she disappeared, two of the last people to see her say.
Libby was uneasy on her feet, "mumbling incomprehensibly" and fell over two or three times, the witnessed said.
The 70-strong police search for Libby has entered its fourth day today after she went missing in Hull on Thursday night.
Mum Lisa pleaded on Facebook for her daughter to come home and thanked "all the fantastic students who turned out" to help look for her daughter.
Police found lip gloss, a screwdriver and a hammer in a hedge close to where she was last seen but it was not known if they are connected to the case.
Last night officers were seen swabbing a front door on the street where Libby lived.
Investigators - who had been at the property for over an hour - also used ultra-violet light and torches on the front door.
Forensic teams were seen taking the items away in cases as the mystery around the 21-year-old's sudden disappearance deepened.
Friends and pals said cops found a phone in the Hull University student's bedroom.
Libby was reported missing after leaving the Welly club in Hull around 11pm on Thursday and getting into a taxi.
The student did not actually enter the club as she was "turned away by door staff who thought she was too drunk".
Two of the last people to see her said she was "falling over drunk" as she disappeared.
Tom Tully, 20, said: "On the night of her disappearance we were going to the Welly too. It was below zero. The taxi dropped her off. She got out and was walking down the street. She fell over a couple of times. She dressed all in black.
She was too drunk to be on her own
Student Tom Tully
“We asked her if she was all right and she mumbled something incomprehensible. Libby started walking away from her front door.
“She was stumbling and fell over. We were going to help but the taxi driver got out and helped her up.”
Fellow student Leon Caplin, also 20, added: “Then our taxi came and we had to go. We wish now we had stayed. I hope she is found."
It's Libby - who is in her second year at the University of Hull, studying a joint honours degree of Philosophy and Religion - got out of the taxi at Haworth Street and walked to a bench. She was later seen by a motorist on Beverley Road near the junction with Beresford Avenue around 11.45pm.
On Sunday afternoon, police investigating her disappearance said they now believe the missing student was spotted at 12.05am.
Mum Lisa Squire insisted her daughter got home before she vanished.
According to the Mirror, she said: ";She got out of the taxi at her house. She was home.. simple."
Her disappearance does not seem real and it feels like something out of a movie
Ryan Tweddle, Libby's friend
The mum's claims come as a friend of the young student said police had recovered a mobile phone from Libby's bedroom.
Friend Ryan Tweddle said: "On Thursday night she was a bit drunk and she was hugging everyone saying it was nice the group was back together."
He said that when he had gone to get cash and when he got to the Welly she had not made it in and was in a taxi home.
He added: “Her disappearance does not seem real and it feels like something out of a movie [...] Police came yesterday and took some items, such as a phone, from her room."
Another close friend Lauren Goodman said Libby "didn't have her phone with her that night".
As the search continues for the missing student today, forensic investigators have been pictured recovering items just 40 yards from where the 21-year-old was last seen.
According to the , the lip gloss was found in the undergrowth while the screwdriver was tubed and taken away by investigators "as a precaution".
On Saturday, around 200 students were out looking for Libby.
Previously, mum Lisa made a desperate plea for her return on Facebook.
"I'm broken without my pie. Libby Squire come home," she said.
Thanking the students who searched the university campus on Saturday, she said in the post: "She is obviously loved by so many."
Humberside Police believe Libby may have been seen after midnight on the night she went missing, according to a new statement.
Cops are asking for anyone who may have been on Haworth Street - walking or in a vehicle - between 11.30pm on Thursday night and 12.30am to get in touch.
Detective Superintendent Simon Gawthorpe said: "There are a number of leads we are following up and I want to offer my thanks to everyone who has come forward with information, your help has been invaluable.
"We're trying to trace Libby's steps and piece together her movements that night. We know she got into a taxi outside the Welly Club on Beverley Road at around 11pm on Thursday.
"Libby got out of the taxi a short while later near her home address on Wellesley Avenue, but was later seen on CCTV on Beverley Road, close to the junction with Haworth Street at around 11.45pm.
"We now believe she may have been seen 20 minutes later on Beresford Avenue at around 12.05am.
"We're keen to speak to anyone who may have been on Haworth Street, which is almost adjacent to Beresford Avenue, between 11.30pm and 12.30am as part of this line of enquiry, to understand Libby's movements that night.
"We have specialist teams again out today carrying out searches and we are working with Humberside Fire and Rescue and the Coastguard, who will be around the River Hull."
He continued: "I completely understand people will want to help with the searches, but I would please ask that you instead continue to help us by coming forward with any information, no matter how small or insignificant you think it may be, as it could link together with information we already have and help us to find Libby.
"We need your help with information to piece together Libby's movements, to find her and return her home safely to her family."
Libby is described as 5ft 7ins tall with shoulder length brown hair and was wearing a black long sleeved top, leather jacket and black jeans when she was last seen.
Anyone with information is asked to call 101 quoting log 29 of 01/02/19.
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