Tragic end for missing walker Joanne Jones last seen waving before hiking to beauty spot

Police launched a precocious hazard missing idiosyncratic hunt to effort and find Mrs Jones involving dozens of volunteers and specializer officers utilizing horses, drones and dogs, arsenic good arsenic upland rescue teams

A monolithic hunt ended successful calamity aft the assemblage of a missing walker was discovered successful woodland.

Joanne Jones, 49, sparked an alert erstwhile she failed to instrumentality location connected Monday, October 21, an inquest has heard. Pontypridd Coroner's Court was told constabulary launched a "high risk" missing idiosyncratic hunt to effort and find Mrs Jones involving dozens of volunteers and specializer officers utilizing horses, drones and dogs, arsenic good arsenic upland rescue teams.

She was past spotted dressed successful walking boots and a raincoat, and carrying a rucksack arsenic she headed on a steep roadworthy towards a quality spot. One of the past sightings of her live is camera footage of her appearing to question to a car.

The hunt combed the area, scouring hills and fields but Mrs Jones was recovered dormant successful dense woodland connected Saturday, October 26, WalesOnline reports. The inquest heard however her hubby Nick knew she had been stressed lately but helium near the marital location for enactment astatine 7.30am connected Monday greeting with “no concerns” astir his wife.

"Later that day helium returned location and located a enactment near successful the bedroom,” Coroner's serviceman Keeley Mason said. “He contacted constabulary and a precocious hazard missing persons probe was commenced. At astir 6.30pm connected October 26 officers located Mrs Jones successful a dense woodland."

The proceeding was told that her provisional origin of decease was from injuries connected to compression of the neck, pending a toxicology report. Coroner Graeme Hughes said determination was crushed to judge her decease was "unnatural" and a afloat inquest would instrumentality place.

"While those investigations proceed I'm going to adjourn this opening hearing, passing my condolences to Mrs Jones' household and friends,” helium added. In a Facebook station hubby Nick’s set Sister Morphine said: "We are devastated that Joanne Jones, woman of Sister Morphine guitarist Nick, has passed away, aged conscionable 49. Understandably, euphony and societal media matters indispensable instrumentality a backmost spot arsenic we rally astir our bandmate astatine this unimaginably bittersweet time. Thanks to each who person messaged us, and to those successful the section assemblage that devoted clip to the hunt for Jo."

At the clip a South Wales Police spokesperson said: “Officers searching for 49-year-old Joanne Jones, who has been missing from her location successful Pontypridd since Monday located the assemblage of a pistillate connected Saturday evening. She has been formally identified arsenic Joanne Jones.

“Next of kin and HM Coroner person been informed. Joanne’s household person expressed their gratitude to each the agencies and members of the section assemblage who person helped to find her implicit the past week. They present petition privateness truthful they tin statesman to travel to presumption with their loss.”

Detective Chief Inspector Emma Hampton said: “I privation to explicit my sympathies to Joanne’s household astatine what is simply a precise bittersweet clip for them. I besides privation to convey our exigency services colleagues and members of the nationalist who assisted successful our hunt effort implicit the past week. I tin besides corroborate that we are not treating Joanne’s decease arsenic suspicious.”