No suspicious circumstances in the death of seven-year-old Conley

South Yorkshire police are still trying to trace the final movements of Conley Thompson after he left his friends at a play park two miles from his home in Worsborough.

The tragic youngster, from Underwood Avenue, Worsbrough, was reported missing after he failed to return home from Locke Park, Barnsley, where he had been playing with friends on Sunday night.

Conley’s body was found on a building site in Worsbrough, near Barnsley, yesterday morning.

She told reporters: “I’m going to miss him”.

His grandmother Deborah Fraser went to the site to pay tribute to her grandson and said she was “shell-shocked” by his death.

South Yorkshire Police said there was “no suggestion of any third party involvement” but they are investigating the cause of the boy’s death and working with the Health and Safety Executive to establish how he accessed the construction site. His shoes were red and black and he was wearing brown pants with a light blue checked shirt.

People have laid flowers and teddies at the construction site.

If you have any information, please call police on 101, quoting incident number 1148 of 26 July, 2015.

Police are not understood to have checked the building site thoroughly because the gates were securely locked and there is a fence around the edge. (His mother) is devastated, we all are.

She added: “We know he’s got through a small hole in top of the site, and because it’s been wet he’s slid and gone into a vertical pipe”.

Peter Taylor, manager of Security Guards UK, which has signs on the site, said the company was no longer employed there. “During the time we did report, on numerous occasions, kids trying to get into the site and various trespassers”, he said. “We are very sorry for the family’s loss”. About 50 police officers and a helicopter were deployed in the search for him overnight. He described the site as high-risk, with building materials and diggers inside. “I can’t begin to imagine what that family are going through”.

Today, a book of condolence was opened at a church near his home.