Devon and Cornwall crime commissioner sorry for multiple bodies claim

Police say only one set of human remains found after Alison Hernandez told meeting dead bodies' recovered from site

A police and crime commissioner has apologised for claiming that multiple human remains had been discovered in woodland in Cornwall at the centre of a murder investigation.

Alison Hernandez told a meeting of the Devon and Cornwall police and crime panel that dead bodies" had been found at Sticker, near St Austell, and investigations were continuing to establish exactly how many.