Body found in lake during search for missing teen

Crown Lakes Country Park is on the edge of Peterborough

A body has been found during the search for a 16-year-old boy who went missing after getting into difficulty while swimming near Peterborough.

Emergency services were called to Crown Lakes, near Farcet, at 16:00 BST on Thursday, and a body was found in the lake just before midnight.

While formal identification is yet to take place, it is believed to be that of the missing boy, Cambridgeshire Police said.

The case will be handed to the coroner, it added.

Kevin Andrews-Mead said he could understand how people may be tricked into believing the water is safe, especially on a hot day

Walkers in the area said it was hard to believe something so tragic could have happened in "such a lovely place".

Kevin Andrews-Mead told the BBC: "It's such a lovely place, I can see how you could be tricked into believing it's safe... the water out there is so deep and cold.

"This is a place of joy where you come to walk your dog and be happy, a nice place.

"You don't expect that sort of thing to happen."

Amanda Thompson said she was shocked and saddened to see the police presence at the lakes

Amanda Thompson had been walking her dog when she saw the police tape and realised something had happened.

She said: "It's a shame really to come to a place like this and realise that something so tragic has actually happened, it's quite sad."

The family of the 16-year-old boy have been informed that his body was recovered