{"id":166133,"date":"2025-06-07T22:55:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T22:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/166133\/"},"modified":"2025-06-07T22:55:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T22:55:13","slug":"yajaira-castro-mendez-body-found-in-search-for-missing-woman-from-east-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/166133\/","title":{"rendered":"Yajaira Castro Mendez: Body found in search for missing woman from east London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Saturday, 7 June 2025 21:22\n                <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/skynews-yajaira-castro-mendez_6936604.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            A body has been found in the search for a missing Colombian woman from east London.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"first\">Yajaira Castro Mendez was reported missing to police on 31 May after she left her home in Ilford on the morning of 29 May.<\/p>\n<p>A man known to her appeared in court on Friday charged with the 46-year-old&#8217;s murder.<\/p>\n<p>Her body was found during searches in the Bolderwood area of Hampshire on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Her family has been informed of the discovery, but formal identification has yet to be made.<\/p>\n<p>Detective Inspector Jay Gregory, who is leading the investigation, said: &#8220;This is a very sad development in the investigation and are thoughts are very much with Yajaira&#8217;s family and friends at this incredibly difficult time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We continue to appeal to anyone with information that could assist the investigation to please come forward.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more from Sky News:<\/strong><br \/><strong>Trump warns of &#8216;consequences&#8217; if Musk funds rivals<br \/>Reform UK chairman reverses decision to quit<br \/>Meghan shares video of family trip to Disneyland<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Police were in Gray&#8217;s Inn Road, Camden, on Friday as part of their investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Mendez&#8217;s disappearance was initially treated as a missing persons investigation.<\/p>\n<p>\n                    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/skynews_2018-small.png\" alt=\"Sky News\" style=\"width:85px;height:20px;vertical-align:middle;\"\/>\n                <\/p>\n<p>\n                (c) Sky News 2025: <a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/yajaira-castro-mendez-body-found-in-search-for-missing-woman-from-east-london-13380576\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yajaira Castro Mendez: Body found in search for missing woman from east London<\/a>\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saturday, 7 June 2025 21:22 A body has been found in the search for a missing Colombian woman&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[22440,22441,855,9163,22439,748,9444,1354,393,9453,4884,14987,257,269,12,3669,9440,93,16823,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-166133","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-102-5","9":"tag-102-5-fm","10":"tag-birmingham","11":"tag-black-country","12":"tag-brierley-hill","13":"tag-britain","14":"tag-dab","15":"tag-dudley","16":"tag-england","17":"tag-fm","18":"tag-great-britain","19":"tag-halesowen","20":"tag-london","21":"tag-music","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-online","24":"tag-radio","25":"tag-sport","26":"tag-stourbridge","27":"tag-uk","28":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114644551174975396","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166133","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=166133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}