{"id":646689,"date":"2026-06-19T06:01:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T06:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/646689\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T06:01:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T06:01:13","slug":"body-found-in-search-for-missing-teacher-charged-with-sexual-offences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/646689\/","title":{"rendered":"Body found in search for missing teacher charged with sexual offences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A body has been found in the search for a Western Isles music teacher who disappeared months after being charged with sexual offences.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Yearley was last seen in the Keose area of Lochs on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Police confirmed a body had been found in the water in the same area shortly before 1pm on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Formal identification has yet to take place, but the family of the 53-year-old have been informed.<\/p>\n<p>Yearley was arrested and charged in connection with possession of indecent images at an address in Lewis in January.<\/p>\n<p>He appeared in private at Inverness Sheriff Court the same month, where he made no plea and was granted bail.<\/p>\n<p>The death is being treated as unexplained, but there are not believed to be any suspicious circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>A report will be submitted to the Procurator Fiscal.<\/p>\n<p>STV News is now on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Get all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaCESJzKgsNvKKNOYO2r\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">      Follow STV News <\/a>Follow STV News on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Scan the QR code on your mobile device for all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/whatsapp-qr.png\" alt=\"WhatsApp channel QR Code\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A body has been found in the search for a Western Isles music teacher who disappeared months after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":646690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-646689","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\/646689","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=646689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}