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Newcastle Herald
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Body found in water during search for missing hospital patient

Body discovered in search for missing Belmont Hospital patient

POLICE suspect a man who went missing from Belmont Hospital and whose body was found on the banks of Lake Macquarie may have drowned.

The body of Mark Walker was found by a man in a fishing boat in the water on the foreshore of the lake at Dilkera Avenue at Valentine on Wednesday afternoon, nearly 36 hours after he disappeared from hospital.

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