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Body Recovered in Withernsea Search Believed to Be Missing Teen Grace Keeling

Police have not yet completed formal identification.

Overview

  • Humberside Police said specialist teams recovered a body on January 17 after hazardous tides twice delayed efforts at the rocky site.
  • The body was first located on January 15 among coastal rocks near Holmpton Road, with the area secured overnight and a cordon maintained for safety.
  • Officers said they believe the person to be 15-year-old Grace Keeling, and they have informed her family and requested privacy and no public speculation.
  • Grace was swept from steps near the rocks on January 2, and her mother Sarah Keeling, 45, and passer-by Mark Ratcliffe, 67, died trying to rescue her.
  • Inquests into the two adult deaths opened earlier this month citing drowning as the primary cause, as the community continued to leave tributes near the scene.