Body of rugby league star found in bushland

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The assemblage of a rugby league prima who realised his imagination by playing successful the UK Super League has been recovered successful bushland adjacent his location successful America implicit a twelvemonth aft helium went missing.

Bryn Hargreaves played implicit 200 games for Wigan, Leigh Centurions, St Helens and Bradford Bulls implicit a near decade-long career. He announced his status successful September 2012 earlier emigrating to the United States, but not earlier making it wide helium was "angry" with his attraction astatine the extremity of his career.

He said helium was "disillusioned by events disconnected the field" adding that rugby league had chewed him up and spat him out.

"We're pieces of nutrient astatine the extremity of the time and we're not treated with overmuch respect successful rugby league arsenic it is," Hargreaves said earlier packing up his beingness and moving abroad.

Having initially moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Hargreaves was surviving successful West Virginia erstwhile helium vanished successful January past year. He was reported missing erstwhile helium failed to get for work. He was 36 astatine the time.

His disappearance sparked a large hunt led by constabulary and tracker dogs, according to reports, but the hunt was successful vain until this week, with his older member Gareth announcing that his assemblage had been recovered successful a Facebook post.

He wrote: "RIP Bryn Hargreaves. With unthinkable sadness I tin corroborate aft 14 months we person yet recovered Bryn.

"We inactive bash not cognize the origin of decease oregon what really happened connected 3/1/22. Thanks to each those that person helped successful the search.

"We would admit a small abstraction and volition support you updated erstwhile we person immoderate further accusation x."

According to the Daily Mail, the assemblage was recovered successful woodland adjacent Hargreaves' home.

The Mail reports that the Monongalia County Sheriff's bureau confirmed to them that detectives were sent to the woodlands adjacent his location aft a subordinate of the nationalist recovered a body.

The assemblage was sent to the West Virginia State Medical Examiner's Office for a post-mortem and affirmative identification.

The quality was met with sadness by the rugby league world, with caller Wests Tigers enlistee John Bateman among those to nonstop his condolences.

According to reports, Hargreaves' disappearance came soon aft helium was progressive successful a car mishap that caused him terrible backmost pain and near him incapable to drive.

His household suspected helium had been abducted aft helium vanished, hiring a backstage researcher successful an effort to find him.

Hargreaves' parent Maria said she was "in bits" aft quality of her son's decease was confirmed.

She wrote: "I'm successful bits #heartbroken my beauteous lad Bryn one can't deliberation of immoderate words to picture the symptom xx."

There has truthful acold been nary origin of decease determined.

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