The body recovered from a river in Devon has been confirmed to be the body of a missing teenage schoolboy.
Taylor Charlton was 14 when he vanished on 8 May at around 10.30pm. He was last seen in a car park on Station Road in Barnstaple, north Devon.
His disappearance prompted a major search party, which ran until the body was pulled from the River Taw six weeks later.
The discovery came after shoes believed to belong to Taylor were discovered on consecutive days along the riverbank between Sticklepath and Bickington.
A series of public appeals were made, including a community search organised to coincide with
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