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Stephanie Scott: body found by police searching for missing teacher Stephanie Scott: body found by police searching for missing teacher
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Police searching Cocoparra national park, New South Wales, have discovered a body believed to be that of the missing teacher Stephanie Scott. Police have found what they believe to be the body of the missing teacher Stephanie Scott in bushland in New South Wales, a day before she was due to wed her fiancé.
Scott, a teacher in Leeton in the New South Wales Riverina, was murdered on Easter Sunday, allegedly by a cleaner who worked at the same school. Police found the burned remains in Cocoparra national park, north of Griffith in the state’s Riverina region, at 5pm on Friday.
The body was found at 5pm on Friday by police who had earlier pulled a laptop from an irrigation canal outside Leeton, and officers are continuing to comb the area. On Wednesday night officers found a camera with images of a burned body, allegedly in the car of 24-year-old cleaner Vincent Stanford, who has been charged with Scott’s murder. Stanford worked with Scott at Leeton high school.
The grim discovery was made just hours before Scott was due to have married her fiance, Aaron Leeson Woolley. Sources have told AAP it appears that Scott’s body was taken to the remote location, dumped in bushland and burned.
Vincent Stanford, a cleaner at Leeton high shool, was charged with her murder on Thursday. On Friday morning police divers pulled Scott’s laptop from an irrigation canal outside of Leeton. Witnesses had reported seeing a man dump an object in the waterway, 6.5km from where Scott’s car was found on a rural property on Thursday.
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Officers allegedly found images of a burnt body on a camera in Stanford’s car at his Leeton home on Wednesday. Police spent Thursday searching his home, which he shares with family. “I saw a car park across the road, saw a man walking in through the grass and up the channel bank,” Paul Halls said. “I thought he was going to take a photo of the channel or something.
They also searched a vineyard on the outskirts of town after finding Scott’s red Mazda on a nearby property. “When he came back down I asked the guys if he still had his iPad or whatever in his hand and he didn’t.”
More details soon … Halls was at a large shed across the road when he saw the man at 4pm on Easter Sunday, the day Scott is believed to have been murdered.
Fellow witness Brendan Lyons said he saw a man run up the bank towards the channel and throw something he was carrying into the water. “We rang and told [the police] on Wednesday when we heard what had happened,” Lyons said.
Sources have confirmed that the laptop pulled from the canal belonged to Scott, an English and drama teacher.
Scott was due to wed her fiancé, Aaron Leeson-Woolley, among close friends and family in Eugowra on Saturday.