Did Natasha kill herself over split with boyfriend?

Essex police have confirmed that they are not seeking anyone else in relation to the death of 17-year-old Natasha Coombs.

Officers said that a body found next to a railway line was almost certainly that of the missing teenager.

A post-mortem has revealed injuries to the body consistent with being hit by a train.

A police spokesman said the identity would now be confirmed by dental records.

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Police also revealed that a mobile phone, clothing and a handbag had been found nearby.

They are now working on the theory that Natasha may have thrown herself in front of a moving train – although they have also not discounted the possibility that she might have died accidentally after being hit while walking along the track.

The body found on Friday evening was about a mile south of Manningtree Station in Essex – and a similar distance from where Natasha's ex-boyfriend Joshua Brennan, 18, lives with his parents.

An Essex Police source said the death was being treated as "unexplained" but it was unlikely there would be a murder inquiry.

Natasha, of Dovercourt, Essex, vanished while travelling home on July 27 after a meal with friends in Ipswich.

She boarded a late-night train and told her parents, Gary and Joanne, she would get off at Manningtree to get a taxi home.

Officers believe Natasha was upset after a phone conversation with Joshua at 3.30am on the day she disappeared when they had agreed to split up for two weeks.

The police are looking at the possibility she may have stayed on the London-bound train after it reached Manningtree and leapt or fallen through a carriage door into the path of another train.

Checks after her disappearance showed her mobile phone signal had gone off in the Manningtree area.

The body was removed from the trackside at 2pm on Saturday.

It was spotted by a train driver who saw it in thick undergrowth on a steep embankment beside the track.

A-level student Joshua had made an emotional appeal on Friday for help in trying to find Natasha.

He said he had hoped their split would "make the heart grow fonder" and lead to them getting back together.