Mother-of-three died in river by misadventure

A mother-of-three whose assemblage was recovered from a city's stream aft a week-long constabulary hunt had precocious watched a tv amusement astir acold h2o swimming, an inquest heard.

Gaynor Lord, 55, was recovered from the River Wensum successful Norwich, connected 15 December 2023, aft failing to instrumentality location from enactment a week earlier.

An inquest held astatine Norfolk Coroner's Court heard she died by immersion and drowning.

Senior coroner Jacqueline Lake said she believed Mrs Lord intended to participate the h2o but did not mean to instrumentality her ain beingness and concluded she died by misadventure.

The coroner said Ms Lord was connected hormone replacement therapy (HRT) for the menopause and was taking medicine for epilepsy.

Ms Lake said she had heard grounds that Ms Lord had "watched a programme astir acold h2o swimming and that was thing she talked astir successful the caller past some with her hubby and a friend".

Det Sgt Mike Cox told the tribunal her assemblage was recovered "not clothed" and had been 2.5m underwater.

Norfolk Police antecedently said it did not suspect immoderate "third-party involvement" and Det Sgt Cox said determination was nary grounds she had been assaulted, oregon had immoderate intoxicant oregon "drugs of abuse" successful her humor system.

The mother-of-three had been moving arsenic a retail adjunct connected a gin antagonistic astatine Norwich section store Jarrolds and connected the time she went missing, CCTV footage showed her leaving enactment an hr earlier than expected astatine astir 14:45 GMT.

A ample hunt cognition began erstwhile her belongings, including clothing, jewellery and a mobile phone, were recovered scattered crossed Wensum Park to the northbound of the metropolis centre.

Specialist divers and teams from crossed England assisted with the search.