{"id":63693,"date":"2025-08-13T09:52:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T09:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/63693\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T09:52:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T09:52:08","slug":"police-appeal-to-find-missing-12-year-old-kristian-skapsts-last-seen-near-maidstone-west-railway-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/63693\/","title":{"rendered":"Police appeal to find missing 12-year-old, Kristian Skapsts, last seen near Maidstone West railway station"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Police are appealing for help to find a missing 12-year-old.<\/p>\n<p>Kristian Skapsts was reported missing on Tuesday, August 12, and was last seen at 7.30pm near Maidstone West railway station.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"rthmb\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=\" http:=\"\" viewbox=\"0 0 273 194\" alt=\"Missing Kristian Skapsts. Picture: Kent Police\" data-root=\"\/_media\/img\/\" data-path=\"BPGYQXZV64GQA55VJI4P.jpg\" data-ar=\"1.41\"\/>Missing Kristian Skapsts. Picture: Kent Police<\/p>\n<p>The boy is described as being 4ft 2in, of medium build and with short straight blond hair.<\/p>\n<p>He was wearing a black hooded top, dark blue three-quarter-length trousers, and sliders with black socks.<\/p>\n<p>Kristian is known to use the public transport system and has links to Bedfordshire, Cambridge and London.<\/p>\n<p>If you have critical information regarding the whereabouts of Kristian call 999.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any other information to help locate him, use the live chat function on the Kent Police website or call 101, quoting the reference 12-1551 when reporting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are appealing for help to find a missing 12-year-old. Kristian Skapsts was reported missing on Tuesday, August&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63694,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,192,191,1318,3046,50,21819,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-63693","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-human-interest","12":"tag-kent","13":"tag-maidstone","14":"tag-missing-person","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-police-appeals","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom","19":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63693","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=63693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}