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Apr 2023
Body found at Harewood was 250 metres outside police search area
The body of missing man Jesus Moreno lay undiscovered for more than eight months because it was just outside the 500-metre police search area.
A police search team found Mr Moreno's body on Friday on land close to the River Wharfe in the Harewood area.
He had been missing since August 1 last year when he got off a 36 bus from Leeds to Harrogate at Swindon Lane near Dunkeswick, just north of Harewood bridge.
The discovery of his body, close to the last sighting, came two weeks after West Yorkshire Police said it had “exhausted every possible line of enquiry”.
Asked why it had taken so long to find the body when it was so close to the last sighting, a police spokesperson said:
The statement added that enquiries into the death remain ongoing but "there are not thought to be any suspicious circumstances".
Police images of Jesus Moreno
Piglove Brewing Co, the Leeds brewery Mr Moreno co-founded, said in a statement on social media:
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