Relatives of a young woman found dead in a caravan in Tamerton Foliot after going missing have launched an appeal to return her ‘home’ so she can be buried alongside her mother.
Many emotional tributes have already been paid to 24-year-old Lacey Lake after her body was found in Plymouth yesterday afternoon (Tuesday, January 7). Devon and Cornwall Police were searching for her when they made the tragic discovery.
A spokesperson for the South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SWASFT) confirmed that they were called at 1.17pm on Tuesday and sent an operations officer to the scene. Devon and Cornwall Police stated they were called to the location at 1.20pm.
On Tuesday evening the force said formal identification had not yet been carried out but that Lacey’s family had been informed of the discovery. No further update was given by police today [Wednesday January 8].
GoFundMe organiser Lisa Gray said: “We are putting up this GoFundMe to help my friend Sara and her family to get her niece Lacey back home to Doncaster so she can be laid to rest with her mum who sadly passed away when Lacey was only a very young girl.
“Her body has sadly been found after being reported missing down Plymouth where she lived.
“She needs to come home back to Doncaster to be laid to rest in the arms of her mum Samantha who sadly died when the children were only very young.
“The cost alone to get her body back to Doncaster isn’t going to be cheap and also to make arrangements for her funeral.”
The initial target of £2,000 has already been broken and as of Wednesday evening it had reached £2,029 with the target raised to £3,500.
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