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Body found by police searching for missing woman

A body, thought to be that of missing Swindon woman Julie Peters, has been found in a canal in Gloucester

Police searching for a missing woman from Swindon have found a body in a canal in Gloucester. The body was found yesterday (Thursday 14 May) near Kaskelot Way in the Monkmill Dock area.

While formal identification has not yet taken place, police have informed Julie's next of kin and the coroner. The death is not being treated as suspicious.

Julie, who was 55 and from Hamble Road in Swindon, was last seen at her home address on Tuesday 5 May. Her red Ford Ka was later found parked in Tuffley Crescent, in Gloucester,