{"id":951132,"date":"2026-05-10T20:22:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T20:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/951132\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T20:22:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T20:22:22","slug":"investigation-after-body-of-missing-cheltenham-man-found-in-ditch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/951132\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigation after body of missing Cheltenham man found in ditch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Andy may have been riding a blue women&#8217;s Dutch-style bike when he was last seen on Saturday April 25, however the bike has not yet been located,&#8221; continued Hannaford.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I am particularly keen for anyone reading this appeal who was driving along Old Gloucester Road between Saturday April 25 and Sunday May 3 who has access to dashcam footage to kindly review their footage for Andy and the outstanding bike.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Police are asking anyone in Staverton or the surrounding area to check doorbell and CCTV footage from the week leading up to the body being discovered.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Reed was from Cheltenham and was reported missing on 28 April. Police said he was around 6ft (182cm) tall and of slim build, with facial stubble and thinning dark brown hair.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was last seen wearing a blue body warmer over a khaki green jumper, brown cords and a black rucksack, according to police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hannaford added: &#8220;Our thoughts remain with Andy&#8217;s family at this very difficult time and we are doing all we can to establish the full circumstances around Andy&#8217;s death.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;Andy may have been riding a blue women&#8217;s Dutch-style bike when he was last seen on Saturday April&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":951133,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[12,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-951132","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116552148510566747","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951132","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=951132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/951133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}