{"id":721498,"date":"2026-07-31T19:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T19:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/721498\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T19:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T19:36:09","slug":"taylor-charlton-human-remains-identified-as-missing-teenager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/721498\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Charlton: Human remains identified as missing teenager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Human remains found in a river have been identified as those of a missing teenager, police have confirmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Taylor Charlton, 15, was last seen in Barnstaple, Devon, on the night of 8 May with a major search launched after he was reported missing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Devon and Cornwall Police said it was &#8220;extremely saddened&#8221; to confirm <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c621eqwgye5o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">remains discovered in the River Taw<\/a> during the search on 24 June were those of Taylor, who was 14 when he went missing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A woman in her 40s and a 20-year-old man who were both arrested on suspicion of murder in connection with Taylor&#8217;s disappearance remain on bail while police investigations continue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The force said Taylor&#8217;s family had been informed of the identification and continued to be supported by specialist officers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a statement, police said: &#8220;This is not the outcome that anyone hoped for and we know how deeply this will affect the local community who have shown tremendous support throughout the search.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Human remains found in a river have been identified as those of a missing teenager, police have confirmed.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":721499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-721498","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\/721498","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=721498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/721499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}