Volunteers divers found the body of a missing dad in less than an hour after a police search that lasted for five weeks. Father-of-two Daniel Fraser was last seen in Musselburgh High Street, East Lothian, at around 1.37am on January 7.
The 35-year-old was reported missing by his worried family when he failed to return to his Drylaw home.His body was tragically discovered at Musselburgh Lagoons on Sunday, just 1.1 miles away, by specialist search team Beneath the Surface.They made the find in just 52 minutes using state-of-the-art Side-Scan Sonar technology - used for detecting and imaging objects on the seafloor.
It comes after extensive police searches to trace Daniel using specialist resources including the Force helicopter, search teams and police dogs.During his disappearance, his distraught family issued appeals to find him with devastated cousin Lauren Quinn 'begging' for information as she told how the family had been through 'enough pain to last a lifetime'.Daniel was found using the specialist kit less than a month after the discovery of another missing dad, Greig 'Stodge' Stoddart.Greig, 44, had gone missing on Christmas Eve after a fishing trip with pal Ian McBurney, 55, at Gartmore Dam.
McBurney was tragically found dead on Boxing Day, but Greig's family endured an agonising three-week police search before volunteers locate his body in under two hours on January 15.At the time, the specialist team used a £6000 Aquaeye device - an advanced sonar scanner which uses the latest technology and artificial intelligence to identify human bodies underwater.Greig's cousin Thomas Stoddart, 38, called in Beneath the Surface after his family became desperate for news.Thomas said: "We couldn't wait any longer to find
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