VIDEO: Adrian's passport found on reservoir body

Friday 05 August 2016

Jersey Police have confirmed they've found Adrian Lynch's passport on the body discovered in Handois reservoir earlier this morning. Formal identification hasn't yet been made, but Adrian's parents have been kept informed.

Jersey Water staff found the partially submerged remains of a body while conducting routine maintenance at the reservoir this morning. The area had previously been searched by specialist divers, and with sonar, but nothing was found.

The Police issued a statement shortly before lunchtime announcing that a body had been found:

“Given the proximity to the last known location of missing Islander Adrian Lynch, Adrian’s family have been updated as to the find but any formal identification is likely to take some time.

Police officers are currently at the reservoir and we would request that persons do not attend at that location in order to enable the police to carry out their investigations.

"We understand the public interest that this incident will create, but we would ask that Islanders respect this request and the family’s privacy at this time."

Speaking this afternoon, Detective Superintendent Stewart Gull confirmed that Adrian's passport was recovered from the body, and that a Home Office Pathologist would be arriving in the Island tomorrow, to conduct formal tests to establish the cause of the death.

20-year-old Adrian Lynch’s disappearance in December last year has been the subject of much controversy and debate.

He’d been at a work’s Christmas party in town on Friday 4th December and had taken a taxi home, but got out at Carrefour Selous at around midnight. At about 02:00 on the Saturday morning two witnesses spotted him wandering around Bon Air Stables, and he was later caught on CCTV camera. Police also found his phone, wallet and belt.

Over the following months 4,000 leaflets with a photo of Adrian were delivered to houses in St Lawrence, St Mary and St John. And police conducted extensive searches of the area where he’d last been seen, but no further trace was found.