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A mum-of-two disappeared after dropping her daughter off to school in a mystery which has remained unsolved for three years.

Renata Antczak from Hull vanished after she took her youngest to school in Kingswood on April 25, 2017.

After frantic searches, appeals and even arrests, the case seems to have struck a dead end.

There is a wide acceptance Renata is dead but her body has never been found.

Humberside Police admit there are no new leads which could shed light on exactly what happened that day - but there is still a drive and desire to solve the tragic mystery.

“It has been three years since Hull mum Renata Antczak disappeared after she dropped her youngest daughter off at school on Tuesday, April 25 2017,” senior investigating officer Chief Inspector Tony Cockerill told Hull Live.

“Since then, our officers have worked to piece together what happened to her and this remains an active and ongoing investigation.

"Disappointingly, no new information has come to us since the last anniversary and I would urge anybody with any information to come forward so that we can carry out the necessary investigations.”

The name and face of mother-of-two Renata became known to almost everybody in Hull.

Detectives previously said all lines of inquiry to find her alive had "proved fruitless".

Publicly, little has changed since but police remain determined to solve the mystery.

Renata’s daughters have heard nothing from her since April 25, 2017 and no one who knew her has been in contact with her at all.

The net has been cast across Europe and in her native Poland in particular but to no avail.

What was initially treated as a missing person's inquiry soon became a murder investigation, which would become all-consuming for those working night and day to solve it.

It has been one of the largest murder investigations in Hull in 20 years and police have vowed to do all they can to find her.

But as time passes that determination will soon become nothing more than hope, the hope someone will come forward with new and vital information.

Renata has now missed three Christmases and numerous significant birthdays.

Her last known sighting was at Broadacre Primary School, where she wore a distinctive bright yellow puffa jacket. She was reported missing by her dentist husband Dr Majid Mustafa that night.

Although police have made previous appeals - including through a social media video that reached 300,000 people globally - officers believe someone, somewhere, may still hold information that could be critical to the inquiry.

Renata’s mother Stanislawa Antczak spoke to the BBC about her agony on the two-year anniversary.

She said: “They always say the same. They keep on searching. That’s what they told me. They keep on searching.

“Really, right now I’m not sure anymore. I can’t say for certain but I am sure we will see each other again in life. Really it is hard.

"The worst is what the poor child [Renata’s youngest daughter] is going through because she keeps saying to me, 'grandma, I miss my mum so much'. 'Perhaps she will come back'. 'Perhaps she will come back'."

Around two years ago Dr Mustafa, formerly of Kingswood, was sentenced to a 12-month conditional discharge after pleading guilty to intentionally encouraging an offence at Doncaster Crown Court.

Suspecting Renata of having an affair, he tried to get a friend to obtain the "date rape" drug GHB so he could use it on his wife and unlock her iPhone with her fingerprint.

After making various claims amid concerns his wife had joined a cult, he has remained silent in the past 18 months.

Dr Mustafa has always strongly denied any involvement in his wife’s disappearance, despite their marriage difficulties. It is believed Renata asked for a divorce shortly before she disappeared.

Dr Mustafa was asked by a Polish television news crew if he had killed Renata, he replied: “No, of course not, if every man whose wife want a divorce will kill her, the world will probably end.”

In December last year he was struck off as a dentist for trying to obtain an illegal substance to drug his wife.

General Dental Council held a professional conduct committee hearing in London following Mr Mustafa’s behaviour while he worked at Genesis Dental Care in Bransholme.

After a three-day hearing, which Mr Mustafa did not attend, the committee made an order for him to be erased from the register and have his registration as a dentist suspended immediately.

The committee found that Mr Mustafa had failed to "maintain boundaries in the relations he had with patients" by encouraging one of them to try and obtain GHB.

The committee also found Mr Mustafa to be unprofessional. The committee states: “We are satisfied that Dr Mustafa’s conduct was unprofessional.

“Dr Mustafa’s conduct in asking a patient to obtain GHB to be used solely for the purposes of drugging his wife is clearly inappropriate.”

Mr Mustafa was also found to be "lacking integrity" as a result of his actions.

The committee went on to slam the behaviour of Mr Mustafa.

It said: “It is satisfied that members of the dental profession would find his conduct to be deplorable.”

The committee explained there was no option but to strike Mr Mustafa from the register.

It said: “We have decided that erasure from the register is the only appropriate and proportionate sanction to impose in the particularly serious circumstances of this case.

“The misconduct that the committee has identified arises out of serious departures from Dr Mustafa’s professional obligations.

“We have made serious findings against Dr Mustafa and are satisfied, for the reasons set out in its substantive determination, that he poses a risk to the public, and also to public interest, and that there is a high risk of repetition of the misconduct found.

“The committee therefore directs that Dr Mustafa’s registration be suspended forthwith.”

If you have any information please call our non-emergency 101 line quoting log 342 of 26/04/2017. or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.