Hollie McClymont went missing on Sunday in the sea off Barry Island Police say a body has been found in the sea seven miles away at Fontygary Hollie and her mother Stacey, from Glasgow, were visiting family in Wales
By Harriet Arkell
PUBLISHED: 09:30 EST, 10 July 2013 | UPDATED: 09:41 EST, 10 July 2013
Police investigating the disappearance of a 14-year-old girl who went missing at a seaside resort have found a body in the sea.
Hollie McClymont, from Glasgow, has not been seen since she went swimming off Barry Island in South Wales last Sunday.
Today a body was found in the water seven miles from the beach at Whitmore Bay where the schoolgirl was last seen.
Chief Inspector Marc Lamerton, of South Wales Police, said: ' The family of Hollie McClymont, who was reported missing on Sunday afternoon, have been informed of this development and our thoughts are with them at this difficult time.'
He said the body had not yet been formally identified.
More than 40 specialist officers were deployed in the search for the missing teenager, as well as a helicopter and coastguards.
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.
The coastguard was called after reports she was struggling just off the coast at Whitmore Bay at Barry Island, near Cardiff.
Hollie had travelled with friends and family from her home in Glasgow to the beach resort for a three week holiday.
She was staying in the seaside town - known as home of television sitcom Gavin and Stacey - with her mother Sarah and extended family.
Residents of Barry Island said the seas in the area could be treacherous with a strong tidal rip.
Steffan Wiliam, a Barry resident and Plaid Cymru councillor at the local Vale of Glamorgan Council, said: 'As soon as you are outside the bay, you will be carried off in one direction or another. Inside the bay there is a circular current.
'Our thoughts go out to the family at this awful time.'
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