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Shetland search boy found in back of father's van | Shetland search boy found in back of father's van |
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A missing five-year-old Shetland boy who sparked a major search was found sleeping in his father's van. | A missing five-year-old Shetland boy who sparked a major search was found sleeping in his father's van. |
Bradley Simpson was last seen at about 16:00 on Saturday afternoon playing on his bike outside his Lerwick home. | |
He was due to spend the night at his grandmother's house across the road. | He was due to spend the night at his grandmother's house across the road. |
When he failed to turn up at 20:00 the police were alerted and a search was launched. However, he was found in the back of his dad's van shortly after 22:00. | When he failed to turn up at 20:00 the police were alerted and a search was launched. However, he was found in the back of his dad's van shortly after 22:00. |
His father had earlier driven the van to a local supermarket at about 18:30, and noticed the door was not shut properly, so he closed and locked it. | |
'Burst into tears' | |
As the later search continued, Bradley's grandmother Sylvia Woodhouse suggested they check the van, and he was found. | |
She said: "The later it got, I thought has he fallen and hurt himself, or even been unconscious, it had been raining, it was cold. | |
"By about 10 o'clock I really though we weren't going to see him again, that he wasn't going to be alive." | |
Describing the moment when they opened the door and found Bradley, she said: "I thought I was going to vomit just with the relief from the stress and the worry, and I burst into tears." |
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