Update on man found dead in months long search
Police carried out searches in the weeks and months following the 32-year-old’s disappearance
Matthew Hallam was reported missing in July 2025(Image: Cambridgeshire Police)
An inquest has opened into the death of a 32-year-old man who was found dead after going missing from his home in Cambridgeshire.
Matthew Hallam, 32, from Guilden Morden, died on December 6, 2025 following his disappearance.
Mr Hallam was reported missing from his home in Thompson Meadow, Guilden Morden on July 11 last year.
Cambridgeshire Police carried out searches in the weeks and months following the 32-year-old’s disappearance. On Saturday, December 6, a body was found in the woods in the search of Mr Hallam.
The Area Coroner for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, Simon Milburn opened an inquest into Mr Hallam’s death today (Thursday, March 19) at Vantage House in Huntingdon.
The inquest heard that a post mortem examination determined that Mr Hallam’s provisional cause of death was by hanging. Coroner Milburn said that Mr Hallam’s place of death was in Royston.
Coroner Milburn adjourned the inquest until June 17, 2026.