{"id":589258,"date":"2026-05-17T16:53:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T16:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/589258\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T16:53:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T16:53:13","slug":"body-found-near-paignton-beach-after-urgent-police-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/589258\/","title":{"rendered":"Body found near Paignton beach after urgent police search"},"content":{"rendered":"

The tragic discovery was made following a four-hour search\"Hollicombe<\/p>\n

A general file image of Hollicombe Beach in Paignton(Image: DevonLive)<\/p>\n

A body has been found in the search for a missing man in south Devon<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Police, the RNLI and Coastguard carried out searches for 38-year-old Robert Sutton after he was reported missing from Paignton<\/a> yesterday evening (Saturday, May 16).<\/p>\n

The body of a man was found off Hollicombe Beach around 11.45pm last night, police said.<\/p>\n

Robert’s family has been made aware of the discovery.<\/p>\n

Formal identification is yet to take place but the man’s death is not believed to be suspicious.<\/p>\n

A file will be prepared for the coroner.<\/p>\n

Devon and Cornwall Police said: “Emergency services searching for 38-year-old Robert Sutton, who had been reported missing from Paignton on the night of Saturday 16 May, have found the body of a man.<\/p>\n

“Robert\u2019s family have been informed of this development. Police, HM Coastguard and the RNLI conducted searches of the area after Robert was reported missing at around 7.40pm.<\/p>\n

“The body of a man was found off Hollicombe Beach at around 11.45pm. Formal identification is yet to take place. The death is not believed to be suspicious and a file will be prepared for the coroner.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The tragic discovery was made following a four-hour search A general file image of Hollicombe Beach in Paignton(Image:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":589259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[14689,59,57,58,50,22531,201565,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-589258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-devon-and-cornwall-police","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-paignton","tag-paington","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589258","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=589258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}