{"id":10336,"date":"2018-12-13T11:07:12","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T11:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/?p=10336"},"modified":"2018-12-13T11:07:12","modified_gmt":"2018-12-13T11:07:12","slug":"josh-clayton-mother-claims-police-botched-the-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/josh-clayton-mother-claims-police-botched-the-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Clayton: Mother claims police \u201cbotched&#8221; the investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The mother of a barman who died on a private island has filed a complaint against police.<\/p>\n<p>Josh Clayton disappeared whilst working on the Isles of Scilly in 2015, his mother is claiming the police \u201cbotched&#8221; the investigation into his death.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old\u2019s body was found 10 days later but was not examined for 15 days after it had been found.<\/p>\n<p>During the search for Josh the police and family clashed when they used a &#8220;diviner&#8221; to try and find him. They then told his death was an accident.<\/p>\n<p>Tracey Clayton said: &#8220;We can&#8217;t let it go&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Josh Clayton had been working on Tresco for six months when he attended a staff party and vanished in the early hours of September 13<sup>th,<\/sup> 2015. Two investigators from Cornwall and Devon police failed to find out what had happened to him, police just categorised it as an alcohol or substance misuse.<\/p>\n<p>Tests of his body showed there was no trace of drugs in his body and witnesses said he had been drinking but he wanted to get home early for work.<\/p>\n<p>Concerns by his mother Tracey are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A 15-day delay between the body being found and the post-mortem examination<\/li>\n<li>His body being transported between three hospitals and over 200 miles before the autopsy<\/li>\n<li>The destruction of Mr Clayton&#8217;s blood-stained T-shirt before any forensic tests<\/li>\n<li>Mr Clayton&#8217;s room being left insecure and not forensically examined for two years<\/li>\n<li>A bike believed to have been ridden by Mr Clayton on the night, found damaged as if it had crashed, never being forensically examined<\/li>\n<li>A van damaged on the night Mr Clayton went missing not being examined until 19 October 2017, after it had been repaired<\/li>\n<li>Golf buggies damaged on the same evening never being examined<\/li>\n<li>Police using a &#8220;water diviner&#8221; during the initial search<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mother of a barman who died on a private island has filed a complaint against police. Josh Clayton disappeared whilst working on the Isles of Scilly in 2015, his mother is claiming the police \u201cbotched&#8221; the investigation into his death. The 23-year-old\u2019s body was found 10 days later but was not examined for 15&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[369,235,370],"class_list":["post-10336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-josh-clayton","tag-murder","tag-private-island"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10336"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10338,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10336\/revisions\/10338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}