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06/04/2009
Detectives Find Body In Missing Kirsty Hunt
Detectives investigating the disappearance of a model have discovered a body, it has emerged.
Kirsty Grabham, 24, went missing from her home in Rosehill Terrace, Swansea, over a week ago.
South Wales Police said a body was discovered in the Laleston area of Bridgend.
A police spokesman said: "South Wales Police in Swansea investigating the murder of 24-year-old Kirsty Grabham have discovered what is believed to be a body of a woman in the Laleston area of Bridgend.
"The body has not yet been formally identified and the coroner has been informed.
"A trained family liaison officer is supporting the family."
Officers have been granted another 36-hour extension to question a 25-year-old man over the murder.
The model was last seen getting into a taxi that picked her up from her friend’s home in Dan y Graig Road in the Port Tennant area of the city, just after 2pm on Saturday 28 March.
She had been at a local nightclub with friends earlier in the evening.
(JM/BMcC)
Kirsty Grabham, 24, went missing from her home in Rosehill Terrace, Swansea, over a week ago.
South Wales Police said a body was discovered in the Laleston area of Bridgend.
A police spokesman said: "South Wales Police in Swansea investigating the murder of 24-year-old Kirsty Grabham have discovered what is believed to be a body of a woman in the Laleston area of Bridgend.
"The body has not yet been formally identified and the coroner has been informed.
"A trained family liaison officer is supporting the family."
Officers have been granted another 36-hour extension to question a 25-year-old man over the murder.
The model was last seen getting into a taxi that picked her up from her friend’s home in Dan y Graig Road in the Port Tennant area of the city, just after 2pm on Saturday 28 March.
She had been at a local nightclub with friends earlier in the evening.
(JM/BMcC)
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