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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. | |
| 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. | 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. | 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. | 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. |