Lacey Lake was reported missing on Monday (Image: Police handout)
Police searching for a missing 24-year-old from Plymouth have found a woman’s body.
Lacey Lake was last seen in a grey Mercedes as she left Stonehouse, Plymouth on Friday evening, when the location tracker on her phone was suddenly switched off.
Officers were called at about 1.20pm on Monday after concerns for the welfare of the woman in Linton Close, Tamerton Foliot.
A Devon and Cornwall Police spokesman said: “Paramedics attended but the woman was pronounced deceased at the scene.
“The death is being treated as unexplained although not currently believed suspicious.
The tracking on Lacey Lake’s phone was switched off suddenly, said friends (Image: Facebook)
Ms Lake’s family have been informed although formal identification is yet to be carried out.
Lacey’s aunt Sara French, posting on Facebook, said: “It is with a broken heart I need to inform my friends and family Lacey Lake has sadly passed away and her body was found yesterday.
“Thank you to everyone for the kind words and I know this is a shock to everyone but can people please respect our family right now as we have a lot of questions and we are all heartbroken and our privacy needs to be respected and we need to get her back home.
“Lacey you was loved beyond words and I don’t no how we are ever going to get past this. I just hope your at peace with your mum love you always our mini xxxx”.
Police are treating the death as unexplained, but do not believe it is suspicious (Image: Facebook)
Friend Jay Harris added: “The best way to describe Lacey is she’s the moon, she’s the biggest and brightest thing you can see in the darkness, even in her own darkness she shines, she loves deeply, cares immensely and protects with her whole being. I just wish we could of protected you.
“You will always be such a big part of my life, laughs, the cries and especially the highs, you’re one of a kind and always will be. Forever be something so great to this world.
“You’re more than a friend or a best friend you’re family, day or night you’d be there, despite your phone ALWAYS being on do not disturb.
“Your laughter, your advice, your love and your passion will always live on, your empathy for others is something so unexplainable, to meet you when i did was a God send.
“You will forever and always live on in me and so many people, you will never be forgotten and in the next life I’ll step in with my hand out searching for you. Until we meet again, in this life and next I’ll always love you Lace.”
Ms Lake had last been seen on Friday at 6pm as she was leaving Stonehouse. At the time she was wearing men’s tracksuit bottoms.
Her friends said her phone’s location services were later switched off.
They also said she was a Type 1 diabetic who had no insulin with her when she disappeared.