{"id":668684,"date":"2026-07-01T22:13:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T22:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/668684\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T22:13:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T22:13:12","slug":"body-recovered-in-greenock-amid-search-for-andrew-cochrane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/668684\/","title":{"rendered":"Body recovered in Greenock amid search for Andrew Cochrane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Police Scotland said the body of a man was discovered in a wooded area near Bridgend Road at around 1.05pm on Wednesday, July 1.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Formal identification has yet to take place, but the family of Andrew Cochrane, who had been reported missing from Greenock last week, has been informed.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Specialist police search teams were seen in Greenock on Wednesday. (Image: George Munro)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Andrew Cochrane, 68. (Image: Police Scotland)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Police said the death is not believed to be suspicious.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A report will be submitted to the procurator fiscal.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\" alt=\"Residents reported seeing Coastguard vehicles carrying out enquiries\"\/>The family of Andrew Cochrane has been informed (Image: Police Scotland)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Mr Cochrane, 68, was last seen at around 9.45am on Thursday, June 25, near the Lady Octavia Sports Centre.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A significant search operation was launched involving large numbers of police officers and concentrating on the area around the sport centre.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Officers also carried out enquiries in parts of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenocktelegraph.co.uk\/local-news\/port-glasgow-news\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Port Glasgow<\/a>, including around Mackie Avenue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police Scotland said the body of a man was discovered in a wooded area near Bridgend Road at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":668685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-668684","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\/668684","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=668684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}