xWiki 10.9 - Orphaned Navigation Item

I’m new to the forum so apologies if I mess up on the rules!

I have an odd issue with a nav item that will not go away. Some of my users were creating new content and there was an issue with a page they were working on so they decided to delete it however the nav item remained. They’ve also began work on a similar page in the same path. The below is only to show what they’ve done i.e. created a new page in place of the page they tried to delete. The new page has the same name except for a space at the end.

Original - “xWiki_Area.sub1.sub2.first page” → delete → nav item still there
New- "xWiki_Area.sub1.sub2.first page "

When I click the link to the deleted page from navigation I see the usual;

“The requested page could not be found
You can edit this page to create it
Were you looking for one of the following pages instead?

Recycle bin stuff.”

I’ve tried to restore this page from the recycle bin to try deleting again however it creates a new entry in navigation with the same name AND also creates a duplicate of the new page that the team is currently working on! I tried deleting the unwanted page again and both new duplicate nav items go away but we’re still left with the unwanted nav item.

Sub tree

  • unwanted page without space in name
  • new page they’re working on with space in name

After recycle bin restore;

Sub tree

  • unwanted page without space in name
  • unwanted page without space in name
  • new page they’re working on with space in name
  • new page they’re working on with space in name

After deleting EITHER unwanted page it goes back to how it was before.

Weird right?