{"id":1045241,"date":"2026-06-23T15:40:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T15:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1045241\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T15:40:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T15:40:27","slug":"murder-investigation-launched-after-body-found-in-search-for-missing-girl-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1045241\/","title":{"rendered":"Murder investigation launched after body found in search for missing girl &#8211; live updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Local Councillor Lisa Catherine Winnett has said the community is &#8220;totally devastated&#8221; at the news this morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Ms Winnet said: &#8220;My thoughts and prayers are with Lilly&#8217;s family at this devastating and awful time. I hope police work promptly now to find the perpetrator.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;We are a close-knit community here in Blaina and the impact this has had on all of us is immense.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;Since Lilly was reported as missing there has been extensive searches by family, friends and members of the community. On Monday police had drones searching and helicopters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;I would like to thank everyone involved in the searches. This outcome is totally unimaginable for us all.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Local Councillor Lisa Catherine Winnett has said the community is &#8220;totally devastated&#8221; at the news this morning. Ms&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1045242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5010],"tags":[284573,748,188,4884,16,15,1764],"class_list":["post-1045241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wales","tag-abertillery","tag-britain","tag-crime","tag-great-britain","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-wales"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116800181300787112","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1045241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1045242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1045241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1045241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1045241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}