Overview

• Police Scotland say enquiries remain ongoing and that no signs of third-party involvement have emerged from extensive CCTV reviews or witness interviews.
• Cooper’s body, discovered on June 6 in a wooded area near Banknock, Falkirk, has not yet been released to his family pending further inquiries.
• Investigators have treated the case as unexplained while analyzing more than 2,000 hours of footage and conducting door-to-door inquiries with over 400 residents.
• Wendy Stewart has publicly insisted on the involvement of another party in her son’s disappearance and death and has vowed to see the responsible person held to account.
• The case originated when Cooper was reported missing on May 9, prompting a four-week search operation that deployed helicopters, divers and specialist teams.