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UPDATE | Alexander Key, Boscastle

Police searching for a missing man from Boscastle have located the body of a man at Bude.

Officers and HM Coastguard were called around 6.30pm yesterday, 31 January, after the body of a man was discovered in the sea at Bude. Sadly, he was deceased at the scene.

Formal identification is yet to be carried out but officers believe the person to be 37-year-old Alexander Key who was reported missing on 24 January.

His death is not being treated as suspicious and a file will be prepared for the coroner.

Mr Key’s family has thanked police and HM Coastguard for their efforts, along with all those who assisted in the search for him. They have asked for their privacy to be respected at this difficult time. 

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