{"id":654238,"date":"2026-06-23T15:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T15:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/654238\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T15:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T15:57:08","slug":"murder-investigation-launched-after-body-found-in-search-for-missing-girl-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/654238\/","title":{"rendered":"Murder investigation launched after body found in search for missing girl &#8211; live updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Local Councillor Lisa Catherine Winnett has said the community is &#8220;totally devastated&#8221; at the news this morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Ms Winnet said: &#8220;My thoughts and prayers are with Lilly&#8217;s family at this devastating and awful time. I hope police work promptly now to find the perpetrator.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;We are a close-knit community here in Blaina and the impact this has had on all of us is immense.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;Since Lilly was reported as missing there has been extensive searches by family, friends and members of the community. On Monday police had drones searching and helicopters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;I would like to thank everyone involved in the searches. This outcome is totally unimaginable for us all.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Local Councillor Lisa Catherine Winnett has said the community is &#8220;totally devastated&#8221; at the news this morning. Ms&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":654239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[36706,924,59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-654238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-abertillery","tag-crime","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\/654238","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=654238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}