Body recovered in the search for missing Aviemore teenager
Police Scotland have recovered a body not far from where Aviemore teenager Jade McGrath was last spotted.
The body was discovered in the Lawers Way area of Inverness at about 3pm earlier today.
A police spokesperson said: “The family of Jade McGrath have been informed at this time. Formal identification is still to take place.”
Jade, (19), disappeared 11 days ago from the city’s New Craigs Psychiatric Hospital where she was being treated for severe anxiety. She had been admitted two days earlier.
Police officers have been carrying out extensive searches in the area near the hospital and in the city’s Leachkin Road where she was last seen.
Mountain rescuers, search dogs and a police helicopter were also called in as concerns grew for Jade.
Police Scotland also mounted an operation exactly a week after her disappearance stopping motorists on Leachkin Road asking for sightings and dash cam footages if they had been in the area early on the afternoon of November 28.
Jade’s family and friends had put up missing posters in the city appealing for information and handed out leaflets as well as following up potential leads on social media on the whereabouts of the former Grantown Grammar School pupil.
