London - Police in Norfolk confirmed yesterday that the body of a child discovered in the North Sea on Wednesday was that of the missing five-year-old, Jake Parker, Rachel Donnelly reports.
After a post-mortem and identification of the body was completed yesterday Norfolk police explained the boy's body had been recovered from the sea by a lifeboat crew after it was spotted by the crew of a yacht 500 yards off Brancaster beach, Norfolk. Jake disappeared from the beach on Sunday.