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| Body found in missing model hunt | Body found in missing model hunt |
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| Detectives searching for a missing woman who disappeared over a week ago say they have found a body. | Detectives searching for a missing woman who disappeared over a week ago say they have found a body. |
| Kirsty Grabham, 24, a part-time model, has been missing from her home in Mount Pleasant, Swansea since 28 March. | |
| The body, which was found in Laleston, Bridgend, 21 miles away, has not yet been formally identified. Police are searching woodland, close to the M4. | The body, which was found in Laleston, Bridgend, 21 miles away, has not yet been formally identified. Police are searching woodland, close to the M4. |
| Officers have been granted another 34-hour extension to question a 25-year-old man who has been arrested. | Officers have been granted another 34-hour extension to question a 25-year-old man who has been arrested. |
| A hairbrush has been taken from her home by forensic officers and police are also believed to be examining a book of poetry. | A hairbrush has been taken from her home by forensic officers and police are also believed to be examining a book of poetry. |
| The body was found 21 miles from where Mrs Grabham was last seen | The body was found 21 miles from where Mrs Grabham was last seen |
| The body which was found on a ledge in a wooded area very close to the motorway has yet to be formally identified. | |
| She was last seen getting into a taxi which collected from a friend's home in Dan y Graig Road in the Port Tennant area of the city shortly before 0400 GMT on Saturday 28 March. | |
| She had been at the Play nightclub with friends earlier that night. | She had been at the Play nightclub with friends earlier that night. |
| After a previous appeal, police traced the taxi driver who took her home from the club. | After a previous appeal, police traced the taxi driver who took her home from the club. |
| Her mother, Catherine Broomfield, spoke at the weekend of her deep worry at the length of time her daughter had been missing. | Her mother, Catherine Broomfield, spoke at the weekend of her deep worry at the length of time her daughter had been missing. |
| Mrs Grabham, who lived with her husband in Rosehill Terrace, Mount Pleasant in Swansea, was described as an aspiring model. She was originally from the Midlands. | |
| Police cordoned off the hard shoulder of the M4 between junctions 36 and 37 near Bridgend. | Police cordoned off the hard shoulder of the M4 between junctions 36 and 37 near Bridgend. |
| "She would phone me every day without fail because she knew I would worry otherwise. I just want her back," Mrs Broomfield told the South Wales Evening Post. | |
| "It is completely out of character for her to vanish like this. When we spoke on the Friday she sounded fine. There was nothing out of the ordinary. | "It is completely out of character for her to vanish like this. When we spoke on the Friday she sounded fine. There was nothing out of the ordinary. |
| "I am just devastated. I cannot believe that she has been gone so long." | "I am just devastated. I cannot believe that she has been gone so long." |
| Peter Rees, a neighbour of Mrs Grabham, described her as a "cracking girl". | Peter Rees, a neighbour of Mrs Grabham, described her as a "cracking girl". |
| "I wouldn't see why anyone should harm her, " he said. | "I wouldn't see why anyone should harm her, " he said. |
| "It's just horrific You fear for your own safety. She was very bubbly but a decent young lady. Bubbly but decent." | "It's just horrific You fear for your own safety. She was very bubbly but a decent young lady. Bubbly but decent." |
| BBC Wales's Penny Roberts said: "Police have removed Kirsty's hairbrush from the marital home and that will help them in the process of building a DNA profile of Kirsty. | |
| "A hard drive from a computer in Kirsty's home is also being examined and also a book of poems that Kirsty wrote in the hope they may provide some clues about her disappearance." | |
| She added that Mrs Grabham had done some part-time modelling and had hoped that would be a passport to more work. | |
| "However, her friends have said that above all she wanted to start a family. She married her husband Paul last year and she wanted very much to have children. That wasn't happening and she was contemplating IVF treatment," she said. | |
| Police said a trained family liaison officer is supporting Mrs Grabham's family. | |
| Police are continuing to appeal to anyone with information to contact the incident room in Cockett police station on 01792 562731 or Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111. | Police are continuing to appeal to anyone with information to contact the incident room in Cockett police station on 01792 562731 or Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111. |