{"id":373030,"date":"2026-01-16T09:39:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T09:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/373030\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T09:39:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T09:39:10","slug":"craig-hurcombe-disappearance-michael-bretton-charged-with-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/373030\/","title":{"rendered":"Craig Hurcombe disappearance: Michael Bretton charged with murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He is due to appear at Bristol Magistrates&#8217; Court on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Police said Mr Hurcombe was reported missing at 10:45 GMT on 10 January, nine days after last being seen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Det Ch Insp Neil Meade, of Avon and Somerset Police, said: &#8220;Our thoughts are with Craig&#8217;s family during this incredibly difficult time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They continue to receive support from specially-trained officers, and, on their behalf, we request privacy for them. I would also like to thank them for their support with our enquiries so far.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He thanked Wiltshire and Dorset Police for their part in the investigation, adding: &#8220;While enquiries continue to be carried out in the area, we would like to reassure the community that we do not believe there is any risk to the public.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Avon and Somerset Police has said that due to the circumstances of the investigation, it has notified its Professional Standards Department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He is due to appear at Bristol Magistrates&#8217; Court on Friday. Police said Mr Hurcombe was reported missing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373031,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-373030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}