Body found in Mersham woodland after search for missing pensioner Sheila Ratcliffe
11:03, 14 August 2020
updated: 12:28, 14 August 2020
Police have found a body in the search for a missing pensioner.
Sheila Ratcliffe was last seen leaving the William Harvey Hospital in Ashford during the evening of Saturday, August 1.
A CCTV image was released as part of the search for the 76-year-old, however no new information was discovered until Wednesday.
It was then that officers were called to woodland in Mersham at around midday, where the body of a woman was found.
She was pronounced dead at the scene.
Police said: "Formal identification has not yet taken place however the family of a 76-year-old woman who was reported missing from Ashford on Sunday, August 2 have been informed.
"The death is not being treated as suspicious and a report is being prepared for the coroner.
"Officers would like to thank all those people who shared the appeal to locate her."
