Body found in hunt for Scots woman swept away during floods 18 months ago | 928Z9D5 | 2024-05-12 06:08:01
Body found in hunt for Scots woman swept away during floods 18 months ago | 928Z9D5 | 2024-05-12 06:08:01
THE body of a woman who was washed away during torrential rain and heavy floods has been found nearly 18 months on.
Hazel Nairn was last seen in the water at the River Don, near Monymusk, Aberdeenshire, at around 3.05pm on Friday, November 18, 2022.
Tonight, cops have confirmed a body of a woman was recovered from the River Don at around 1.20pm today.
Formal identification has yet to take place but the family of the 71-year-old have been informed.
The death is currently being treated as unexplained but there are not believed to be any suspicious circumstances.
Hazel was thought to have been trying to save her dog when she vanished back in November 2022.
It's understood Hazel was trying to carry her Westie Ruaridh to safety during extreme downpours and gale force winds.
We told how torrential downpours triggered the amber weather warning around where Hazel was walking Ruaridh.
The northeast region was hit with a month's worth of downpours in just a few hours.
She feared the water was too deep for him and she was trying to carry him through flood water.
But it's claimed she lost her footing and slipped into the fast-flowing River Don, which carried her away.
Tragically police confirmed the body of Hazel's dog was found near to the river in the days after her disappearance.
A huge search operation involving police, fire brigade, coastguard and diving teams went on for months to search for the missing mum.
<!-- End of Brightcove Player --> Members of the public also joined in and Hazel's daughter Anneka, 39, was out with them trying to find her mum.
A drone was also drafted in as the search heads downstream towards Aberdeen.
Last year, Anneka even took up kayaking in a bid to find her body.
She told last May: "What has happened to our family has been a living nightmare.
"My partner and I have been having kayak lessons so we can safely get into the water and search for her.
"For a long time after my mum disappeared, the river remained high but now water levels have dropped.
"At the very least, we might have expected to find a piece of her jacket on the barbed wire fence of one of the flooded fields she was initially swept across.
"It's like she vanished into thin air."
The family even drafted in the help of professional diver Peter Faulding who helped in the search for missing mum Nicola Bulley, who went missing in January after dropping her daughters off at school.
A Police Scotland spokesperson: "The remains of a woman were recovered from the River Don near Kemnay, Inverurie, around 1.20pm on Tuesday, 7 May, 2024.
"Formal identification has yet to take place but the family of Hazel Nairn, 71, who was last seen near to Monymusk on Friday, 18 November, 2022, have been informed.
"The death is currently being treated as unexplained but there are not believed to be any suspicious circumstances."
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