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Robert Fairnie

The body of missing teenager Leon Fleming has been found in Edinburgh woodland

The body of missing teenager Leon Fleming has been found in woodland in Edinburgh.

Police say that the discovery was made near Silverknowes Golf Course earlier on Saturday morning.

The 18-year-old was reported missing on Wednesday evening after leaving the Almond House Lodge hotel on Marine Drive. Police issued public appeals in a bid to trace him, and extensive searches were carried out by specialist officers in the Silverknowes and Cramond areas.

Police confirmed that the death is not being treated as suspicious.

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