Alexander Key was reported missing just over a week ago
Paul Greaves Senior News Reporter
16:48, 01 Feb 2026Updated 16:51, 01 Feb 2026
Alexander Key (Image: Devon and Cornwall Police )
Detectives searching for Sir Mick Jagger’s granddaughter’s missing partner have found a body in Bude.
Officers and HM Coastguard were called around 6.30pm yesterday, 31 January, after the body of a man was discovered in the sea at Bude.
He was found dead at the scene.
Formal identification is yet to be carried out but officers believe the person to be 37-year-old Alexander Key who was reported missing on January 24.
His death is not being treated as suspicious and a file will be prepared for the coroner, police say.
Missing Alexander Key from Boscastle(Image: Devon and Cornwall Police)
Mr Key’s family has thanked police and HM Coastguard for their efforts, along with all those who assisted in the search for him. They have asked for their privacy to be respected at this difficult time.
The news comes after a police appeal to find Mr Key. Images of him in brightly coloured clothing were circulated in an attempt to locate him.
The search took place as the area was being hit with storms, first by Storm Ingrid and then Storm Chandra.
Alexander Key was at the Cobweb Inn at Boscastle before he went missing
Mr Key, 37, who has two children with 33-year-old Assisi Jackson, granddaughter to the Rolling Stones star, went missing in the Boscastle area.
CCTV images showed him at 3.25pm on Saturday (January 24) walking past the Wellington Pub, on Old Road, in the direction of Boscastle Harbour towards the River Valency.
Mr Key co-owns The Rocket Store, a popular seafood restaurant in Boscastle.
The Cowben Inn pub, where Alexander was seen on Friday afternoon, also shared a CCTV image on social media and urged people to get in touch.
Daughter of Sir Mick Jagger and mother to Assisi, Jade, shared the police appeal to her Instagram account.
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