{"id":435123,"date":"2026-02-20T00:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T00:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/435123\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T00:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T00:16:08","slug":"body-found-in-search-for-missing-maidstone-teenager-jason-stevens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/435123\/","title":{"rendered":"Body found in search for missing Maidstone teenager Jason Stevens"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Officers searching for a missing 18-year-old man have recovered a body.<\/p>\n<p>Police attended Blean Woods in Canterbury today (February 19), where a person was confirmed dead.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"rthmb\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=\" http:=\"\" viewbox=\"0 0 1124 1678\" alt=\"Officers searching for missing man, Jason Stevens, from Maidstone have recovered a body\" data-root=\"\/_media\/img\/\" data-path=\"FQSARPWLRLU20N10I38K.jpg\" data-ar=\"0.67\"\/>Officers searching for missing man, Jason Stevens, from Maidstone have recovered a body<\/p>\n<p>Formal identification has yet to take place, however, the family of a missing man, who was last seen on Friday (February 13), 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>Jason Stevens from Maidstone was reported missing after last being seen at around 5pm on Friday.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Officers issued CCTV images showing him at Sainsbury\u2019s in Loose Road, in the same town, at 1.48pm that day.<\/p>\n<p>His car had been located at one of the car parks at Blean Woods Nature Reserve that same evening, and searches were carried out in the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Officers searching for a missing 18-year-old man have recovered a body. Police attended Blean Woods in Canterbury today&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":435124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[980,59,57,58,192,191,1318,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-435123","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-human-interest","13":"tag-kent","14":"tag-maidstone","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435123","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=435123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}