Body present in seek for lacking 19-year-old Cole Cooper

A frame has been discovered within the seek for Cole Cooper, a 19-year-old who went lacking 4 weeks in the past in Falkirk.

Police officials mentioned the frame of a person was once came upon in a wooded space close to Kilsyth Road in Banknock, close to Falkirk, at about 4.15pm on Friday.

While formal identity has but to happen, Cooper’s circle of relatives, who’re from the village, were knowledgeable, Police Scotland Forth Valley mentioned in a commentary on Facebook.

Cooper was once closing observed at about 8.45pm on 7 May at the A803 at its junction with Cumbernauld Road in Longcroft, close to Falkirk. He was once reported lacking two days later, on 9 May.

The investigation has to this point concerned a large-scale seek operation, together with using helicopters, divers, and specialist virtual and monetary investigators.

Police mentioned nearly 400 other people were spoken to as a part of door-to-door inquiries, and greater than 2,000 hours of CCTV photos were reviewed.

Detectives had prior to now mentioned they had been treating the case as a lacking individual inquiry relatively than a prison investigation.

A significant incident public portal set as much as acquire photographs, photos and knowledge from the general public had gained a lot of submissions, police mentioned.

Police added that inquiries had been ongoing to ascertain the total cases.