COUGAR SLAYS STAR DOROTHY'S NEPHEW; Cops fear cat attack in park: EXCLUSIVE.

POLICE fear the nephew of actress Dorothy Paul has been killed by a cougar in Canadian woodland.

Dorothy, star of The Steamie, had appealed for information after Daniel Hughes went missing from his new home in Vancouver.

Now police have confirmed that remains found in a country park near the west coast city are Daniel's.

The 29-year-old fitness fanatic never returned after going cycling on the morning of June 5. He had been married to Dorothy's niece Alison for only two weeks.

Constable Quentin Frewing, of North Vancouver Police, said a human leg bone was discovered on the Baden Powell Trail. Other remains were found nearby. The cop said: "We have found skeletal remains. It is a very sad story."

Daniel, who had dual British and Canadian citizenship, spent several years in the UK and helped to run a fitness club in Glasgow.

He and his new bride spent a week on honeymoon following their wedding on May 24 and Daniel was preparing to go back to work when he disappeared.

Dorothy,who has been presenting STV's The Hour programme, spoke movingly about her relative after he vanished. "Daniel is a delightful young man," the 71-year-old actress said at her home in Glasgow.

"It is the most horrible feeling, thinking something dreadful could have happened to him."

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