Missing Joanne Jones smiles and waves before heading into forest in eerie final CCTV

Joanne Jones, 49, was past seen adjacent a wood connected Monday, October 21, heading successful the absorption of Llanwonno - a hamlet precocious up successful the hills of the South Wales Valleys

Eerie caller CCTV images amusement a missing pistillate smiling and waving into the camera earlier vanishing near a distant wood successful Wales.

Joanne Jones, 49, was past seen wearing a backpack astatine astir 10am connected Monday, October 21, heading successful the absorption of Llanwonno - a hamlet precocious up successful the hills of the South Wales Valleys. Earlier this week, Police released different acceptable of photos of Joanne wearing a acheronian greenish coat, achromatic rucksack, leggings, and walking boots.

Her disappearance has sparked a large hunt successful the area, with specializer teams scouring a adjacent wood alongside upland rescue, constabulary helicopters and members of the community. Mounted constabulary and scent dogs person besides joined the search.

In caller dashcam images released by constabulary today, Ms Jones is seen walking on Graigwen Road towards the colony of Ynysybwl astatine astir 10:05am connected Monday - the time she was was reported missing.

She is captured looking into the camera, smiling and waving, arsenic she walks connected the roadworthy adjacent the Gwynno forest, which spans 2,644 hectares and overlooks the Aberdare Valley. Another witnesser claims to person spotted Ms Jones astatine Twyn Y Glog, Ynysybwl, astatine astir 12:45pm the aforesaid day.

Chief Inspector Matt Rowlands said: “We are earnestly acrophobic for the payment of Joanne arsenic she has present not been seen since Monday. Since Joanne was reported missing to us, we person had officers moving tirelessly to effort and found the circumstances astir her disappearance and to recognize wherever she went. We are keeping an unfastened caput astir what has happened to Joanne and are continuing to transportation retired extended enquiries.

“We are trying to portion unneurotic a timeline of her movements, and immoderate information, nary substance however small, could assistance america successful our investigation. We are appealing for anyone who has dash-cam oregon doorbell footage successful the areas of Graigwen/ Llanwonno/ Perthcelyn/ Ynysybwl from 9.30am connected Monday greeting until present to travel forward.

“I recognize however distressing this is for Joanne's household and friends, and we are grateful for the ongoing enactment offered by the section assemblage implicit the past fewer days." Inspector Rowlands besides urged the assemblage not to enactment themselves successful information portion they hunt for Ms Jones, Wales Online reports.

He said: “We admit that members of the section assemblage would similar to acceptable up unpaid hunt teams to look for Joanne nevertheless determination are important points to carnivore successful caput if you program to spell retired and look for her. It's important that, owed to the terrain and conditions, you don't enactment yourself successful information truthful delight don't spell retired alone; archer idiosyncratic wherever you are going and erstwhile you expect to return; marque definite your mobile telephone is afloat charged and instrumentality to designated pathways and tracks.”

Amanda Ellis, section councillor for Ynysybwl, joined successful connected the hunt and said: “People privation to assistance - they cognize that idiosyncratic is missing. I deliberation Joanne was known to radical successful Ynysybwl arsenic good arsenic Pontypridd and it's truthful adjacent to home.

“The assemblage has a past of helping successful crisis, they ever travel unneurotic and they've done themselves arrogant again this week.We've been moving intimately with the constabulary to spot what we tin bash to assistance them. Obviously we don't privation to measurement connected toes truthful we're mindful of what they're doing and precise grateful”.

Members of the nationalist with immoderate accusation connected Ms Jones' whereabouts tin interaction South Wales Police via the unrecorded chat connected their website, oregon via 101 quoting notation fig 2400351002