{"id":378400,"date":"2026-01-19T12:49:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T12:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/378400\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T12:49:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T12:49:13","slug":"body-found-in-search-for-cameron-williams-last-seen-in-barham-near-canterbury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/378400\/","title":{"rendered":"Body found in search for Cameron Williams, last seen in Barham, near Canterbury"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Officers searching for a 27-year-old man missing for more than two weeks have recovered a body.<\/p>\n<p>Police attended Covert Wood, Barham, this afternoon (Sunday, January 18), where a man was pronounced deceased at the scene.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"rthmb\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=\" http:=\"\" viewbox=\"0 0 263 227\" alt=\"Cameron was last seen in the Derringstone Downs area on January 2. Picture: Kent Police\" data-root=\"\/_media\/img\/\" data-path=\"LL6Z9CPE9O3RF8Z3M62J.jpg\" data-ar=\"1.16\"\/>Cameron was last seen in the Derringstone Downs area on January 2. Picture: Kent Police<\/p>\n<p>Formal identification has yet to take place. However, the family of a missing 27-year-old man from the area have been informed.<\/p>\n<p>The death is not currently being treated as suspicious, and a report will be prepared for the coroner.<\/p>\n<p>Cameron Williams was last seen in the Derringstone Downs area of Barham, near Canterbury, at about 1.15pm on January 2.<\/p>\n<p>Police released a succession of appeals describing Mr Cameron as 5ft 10\u201d with close-cut hair and brown facial stubble.<\/p>\n<p>Officers believed he may be wearing grey tracksuit bottoms with a grey tracksuit-style jumper, black Nike trainers and woolly hat.<\/p>\n<p>Last week (January 7) CCTV images were released showing him in the rural area of Barham, the afternoon he went missing.<\/p>\n<p>Searches to find him have included the Covert Woods area, reviewing CCTV, speaking with friends and associates, and following up on reports of potential sightings.<\/p>\n<p>A week after Mr Williams went missing, Kent Search and Rescue said its volunteers had put in more than 220 hours worth of work, completing 80 miles of searching.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Officers searching for a 27-year-old man missing for more than two weeks have recovered a body. Police attended&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[980,59,57,58,191,3046,50,21819,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-378400","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-canterbury","9":"tag-gb","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-greatbritain","12":"tag-kent","13":"tag-missing-person","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-police-appeals","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378400","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=378400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}