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Missing Natasha police find body | Missing Natasha police find body |
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Police searching for a missing teenager have found a body close to a railway line. | Police searching for a missing teenager have found a body close to a railway line. |
Natasha Coombs, 17, has not been seen since boarding a train from Ipswich in Suffolk, to her home in Dovercourt, Essex, on 27 July. | Natasha Coombs, 17, has not been seen since boarding a train from Ipswich in Suffolk, to her home in Dovercourt, Essex, on 27 July. |
Essex Police said a body was found close to Manningtree railway station in Essex where Natasha is believed to have got off the train. | |
A spokesman said the body, thought to be a woman, had not been identified. | |
Essex police confirmed the body was found a mile down the line on the London side of Manningtree in undergrowth next to the railway line. | |
The station has been closed and officers were stopping people from going onto the platform. | |
Natasha had been out for a meal with friends in Ipswich on the night she went missing. | Natasha had been out for a meal with friends in Ipswich on the night she went missing. |
She had separated from her boyfriend two weeks before, which police believe she might have been upset about on the night she disappeared. | She had separated from her boyfriend two weeks before, which police believe she might have been upset about on the night she disappeared. |
Earlier her former boyfriend Joshua Brennan, 18, made an appeal for help to find her. | Earlier her former boyfriend Joshua Brennan, 18, made an appeal for help to find her. |