{"id":57629,"date":"2026-07-29T15:54:51","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T15:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/second-body-found-in-search-for-kayakers-missing-in-north-wales\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T15:54:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T15:54:51","slug":"second-body-found-in-search-for-kayakers-missing-in-north-wales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/second-body-found-in-search-for-kayakers-missing-in-north-wales\/","title":{"rendered":"Second body found in search for kayakers missing in north Wales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">A second body has been found following a search for two missing kayakers who were last seen in north Wales more than a week ago.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The body of Simon Wilson was found in the sea near Llwyngwril, Gwynedd, at about 19:20 BST on Tuesday 28 July.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was one of two men reported missing on 21 July. The pair were last seen near the beach off Hafan Y M\u00f4r holiday camp in Pwllheli at 18:30 and were believed to be heading towards the sea with inflatable kayaks. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c86n1lvgw39o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">body of the other missing man, Connor Parfitt, was discovered on a beach<\/a> in Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, on 26 July. Wilson&#8217;s family and the coroner have been informed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cn5nkw67x5qo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A second body has been found following a search for two missing kayakers who were last seen in north Wales more than a week ago. The body of Simon Wilson was found in the sea near Llwyngwril, Gwynedd, at about 19:20 BST on Tuesday 28 July. He was one of two men reported missing on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[942,16155,1157,293,376,312],"class_list":["post-57629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wales","tag-body","tag-kayakers","tag-missing","tag-north","tag-search","tag-wales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57631,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57629\/revisions\/57631"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}