Northern Ireland

Post-mortem examination to take place after body found in Maghera

Police appealed for information on missing man Lee Johnston who was last seen on Saturday (PA)
Police appealed for information on missing man Lee Johnston who was last seen on Saturday (PA)

A post-mortem examination is to take place after a body was found in Maghera, Co Derry.

It comes as police appealed for information on a missing man, Lee Johnston.

Mr Johnston, 21, from the Coleraine area, was reported missing to police on Friday.

He was described as a “high-risk” missing person.

Lee Johnston missing
Lee Johnston from Coleraine was last seen in Cookstown on Saturday (PSNI/PA)

Police noted Mr Johnston’s links to the Coleraine, Ballymena, Limavady and Cookstown areas and said their latest confirmed sighting of the high-risk missing person was at 5.42pm in the area of Dunmore Crescent, Cookstown, on Saturday.

A woman aged 31 and a man aged 33 had been arrested in relation to his disappearance but were later released on bail.

Formal identification and the post-mortem examination are due to take place in coming days following the discovery of the body.

The PSNI have said no further information will be available until these procedures have been completed.