Hollie McClymont went missing on Sunday in the sea off Barry Island Detectives confirmed that they found her body seven miles away Hollie and her family, from Glasgow, were visiting relatives in Wales
By Harriet Arkell and Becky Evans
PUBLISHED: 09:30 EST, 10 July 2013 | UPDATED: 19:16 EST, 10 July 2013
A body found in the sea off South Wales has been confirmed as a Scottish 14-year-old who went missing on a family holiday.
Hollie McClymont, from Glasgow, had not been seen since she went swimming off Barry Island last Sunday.
More than 40 specialist officers were deployed in the search for the teenager, as well as a helicopter and Coastguards.
Today a body was found in the water seven miles from the beach at Whitmore Bay where the schoolgirl was last seen.
Last night , Chief Inspector Marc Lamerton, of South Wales Police, said the body had now been formally identified.
He said: 'We can confirm that a body recovered from the sea near Fontygary in the Vale of Glamorgan has been formally identified as that of 14-year-old Hollie McClymont.
'The body was discovered by a police search team this afternoon.
'Our thoughts are with Hollie's family at this difficult time.'
Hollie, a pupil at St Thomas Aquinas school in Glasgow, was on a week-long break visiting family in Wales, was seen getting into difficulty while swimming in the sea.
However, officers said emergency crews were not alerted to the incident until an hour after she was last seen, something Coastguards said they were 'dumbfounded by'.
Hollie had travelled to the beach resort for a three week holiday with her mother and extended family.
News of the discovery of a body in the hunt for Hollie was described as a 'nightmare scenario' today.
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