Canal body identified

POLICE have identified a body that was pulled from a canal at the weekend as that of a man who had been missing for more than a week.

Leigh Stainforth (39) had been missing for eight days when a passer-by spotted a body in the South Yorkshire Navigation at Mexborough on Sunday.

Today a spokesman for South Yorkshire Police confirmed that the body was that of Mr Leigh Stainforth, adding: “There are no suspicious circumstances surrounding his death.”

Leigh was last seen in the early hours of May 8 during a night out with friends in Mexborough.

He was seen to leave the Boy and Barrel on High Street at 1.50am and CCTV footage showed him walking along High Street and then on to Bank Street.

Leigh then continued walking along Bank Street alone in the direction of Doncaster Road towards his home but he never arrived.

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