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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 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. | 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. |
| Police found the burned remains in Cocoparra national park, north of Griffith in the state’s Riverina region, at 5pm on Friday. | Police found the burned remains in Cocoparra national park, north of Griffith in the state’s Riverina region, at 5pm on Friday. |
| 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. | 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. |
| Police tape remained across Whitton Stock Route Road on Saturday morning with a sole policeman keeping guard. Forensic officers were expected to be back at the scene. | |
| The national park, popular with day trippers and dotted with leafy picnic areas, is over an hour’s drive from Scott’s hometown of Leeton. | |
| Sources told AAP it appeared Scott’s body was taken to the remote location, dumped in bushland and burned. | |
| 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. | 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. |
| Related: Stephanie Scott: police divers find laptop in search for body | Related: Stephanie Scott: police divers find laptop in search for body |
| “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. | “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. |
| “When he came back down I asked the guys if he still had his iPad or whatever in his hand and he didn’t.” | “When he came back down I asked the guys if he still had his iPad or whatever in his hand and he didn’t.” |
| 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. | 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. | 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. | 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. | Scott was due to wed her fiancé, Aaron Leeson-Woolley, among close friends and family in Eugowra on Saturday. |
| The 26-year-old had been due on Saturday to prepare for one of the most joyous occasions of her life - her wedding day. | |
| The English and drama teacher leaves behind her fiancé Aaron Leeson-Woolley, whom she met as a child playing soccer. | |
| Her family is to hold a memorial picnic in Leeton on Saturday and has asked the community to wear yellow in her memory. |