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'Give us back our Sarah': Don Spiers' emotional plea to her killer

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Sarah Spiers' heartbroken father has given a rare interview on the 21st anniversary of her suspected murder to plead for her killer to reveal where her body is.

"I feel as though I've been absolutely gutted," he told Nine News Perth.

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Don Spiers on the toll of losing his daughter Sarah

In a rare television interview, Mr Spiers revealed the toll of losing his daughter and how it drove him to a breakdown. Vision: Nine News Perth.

"I worked hard to make my family happy and comfortable and then I've been denied part of that family now for 21 years.

"I can't express strongly enough how someone's life can be changed and how torment can be implemented for so long because of someone's selfish behaviour."

The "bubbly and energetic" 18-year-old went missing around 2am on January 27 1996, after celebrating Australia Day with friends at Club Bay View in Claremont.

She has not been seen since leaving friends to catch a taxi near Stirling Highway.   

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Her father, Mr Spiers, said the torment of not knowing what happened to his daughter still haunts him every day.

"To think that time will make us feel better, it doesn't because at the moment my wife and I's anxiety and torment is as large as it's ever been," he told Nine News Perth.

"I just keep working and working, because sure as hell if I sat around I really started to suffer, I did break down with chronic depression and in the last two years I'm back on medication to deal with that."

Asked what he would do if he was face-to-face with his daughter's killer, he said he could never inflict the same pain on him as he has inflicted on the Spiers family.

"I feel as though my stomach has been cut open, fallen on the ground and I've been walking in it for 20 years," he said. 

The 67-year-old is a supporter of WA Labor's election promise to introduce 'no body, no parole' laws in WA if it wins government.

The laws would prevent murderers from being released from jail without allowing the victim's family closure to bury their loved one.

An emotional Mr Spiers pleaded for the killer to reveal where her body was, telling Nine News Perth he believed police would catch the person responsible for his daughter's death. 

"Give us back our Sarah," he said.

"My daughter was the most loving thing that was just taken out of our life just like that.

"The love that she expressed to us and the love we expressed to her was what made us happy and content in our life and since we've lost her, all that's disappeared."

Mr Spiers thanked the police for their commitment to find their daughter's killer over the past 21 years.

"We've had a lot of support from police, the police have been unbelievable... I think they've done a marvellous job and are still doing a marvellous job," he said.