News about Jack Gillespie

A popular and generous head boy who aspired to be a stage actor died when fell 130ft into a quarry at just 17-years-old, an inquest heard. Jack Gillespie was returning home from a night out with friends on 9 June last year when he stumbled off a ledge. After Jack was reported misssing, police searched for him using a helicopter and found his body in Swanworth Quarry, in Dorset the next day. His mother Claire Deamer, wrote to the Daily Mail's Extraordinary Lives column describing her youngest as someone who 'loved life, revelling in it and burning the candle at both ends as so many youngsters do.' More than 300 people attended his funeral filling the parish church where the service was held.

In the hunt for a missing boy in Dorset, a body was discovered. Jack Gillespie, 17, had been reported missing after leaving his house in Worth Matravers around 4 p.m. on Saturday, June 10. The coastguard and Dorset Search and Rescue sent search parties out to assist search parties. Around 9:15 p.m. that evening, officers discovered a body in the area. Despite the fact that the body has not been identified informally, Mr Gillespie's family has been notified.