A POLITICIAN has called for the Didcot power station owner to focus "all its resources" on finding the missing bodies of John Shaw and Ken Cresswell.

Rotherham MP Sarah Champion (pictured below) said RWE needed to "end the mental torture the Shaw and Cresswell families are living through".

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Mr Shaw, Mr Cresswell, Chris Huxtable and Mick Collings were working for demolition contractors Coleman & Company when part of the boiler house collapsed in February.

Mr Collings' body was recovered shortly after the collapse, and on Saturday the remains of father-of-one Chris Huxtable, 34, from Swansea, were formally identified by the police.

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Following weeks of recovery work Mr Huxtable's body was taken from the site on Wednesday night in a guard of honour procession.

Ms Champion said: "I am hugely relieved Chris Huxtable has now been found but the wait goes on for the Shaw and Cresswell families.

"For six months the families have been desperate to have their loved ones returned to them so they can properly grieve.

"Their lives have been on hold for all this time – waiting for information, worrying if they leave home in case they miss a call, and having to constantly fight to keep the search on track."

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Wantage MP Ed Vaizey said: "It's very sad that the death of Chris Huxtable has been confirmed. He was a young man with a life ahead of him."

RWE spokeswoman Kelly Nye said contractors would continue to work 12 hours a day, seven days a week until the remaining missing men are returned to their loved ones.

She added: "Our thoughts are with Chris’s family and friends at this deeply distressing time.

"We continue to think of the families of Ken Cresswell and John Shaw, who are still missing at this time, and of all those close to Mike Collings who also lost his life in this terrible tragedy."