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Man charged in missing man murder inquiry

John Fairhall/BBC Two police officers in yellow high-vis jackets standing in front of a van parked in front of a shop called Barista. To its left is a large blue and white police forensic tent and in front of that is a white van with police and forensic investigation written on its sides John Fairhall/BBC
Essex Police has been focusing its efforts on the Duke Street area of Chelmsford "and Barista specifically"

A man has been charged with assisting an offender (murder) and preventing the burial of a body as police search for a missing man in a case they are treating as a murder inquiry.

Cumali Turhan, 45, was last heard from when he was in The Globe, in Rainsford Road, Chelmsford, shortly after midnight on Tuesday.

Ciprian Ilie, 44, appeared at Chelmsford Magistrates’ Court earlier and Essex Police is still appealing for information.

Det Ch Insp Louise Metcalfe from Essex Police said: "We’re continuing to build a picture of the circumstances leading up to Cumali being reported as missing to us, including whether others have been involved."

Essex Police Cumali Turhan, who has black hair swept to one side and a greying, black beard. He is wearing a black jacket and appears to be sitting in front of an aquarium displayEssex Police
Cumali Turhan has not been seen since the early hours of Tuesday and police are "trying to piece together the circumstances in which he went missing"

Police added that they had information that Mr Turhan may have been in Barista on Duke Street after The Globe.

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