The family of missing Chester-le-Street grandmother Pamela Jackson are expected to find out the identity of a body found on moorland
FOR months Pamela Jackson?s heartbroken family have watched as search teams scoured the countryside for clues.
Now loved ones are anxiously awaiting formal identification of a body discovered more than 100 miles away from her home on the West Yorkshire Moorland.
Detectives are today expected to release further details after a body was found in Turvin Road, near Ripponden, Halifax, on Monday.
It brings to an end more than 12 weeks of heartache for her family which began when her frantic son Joe, 21, made a call to police after his mum vanished.
In that time there has been a cross-county police operation involving dozens of officers who have conducted a painstaking search for the 55-year-old.
More than 60 specialist officers from County Durham and West Yorkshire have employed high-tech equipment including sonar devices to scour the bed of the River Wear near her home.
Railway lines, embankments and a local nature reserve were also combed for clues in a bid to trace the grandmother-of-four.
But this week officers using police dogs made a breakthrough in a remote part of the North West.
The mum-of-three was discovered ?some metres? from the roadside more than three months after she vanished from her home in Chester-le-Street, County Durham on March 2.
Her partner Adrian Muir, 50, from Halifax, has been charged with her murder.
Last month officers were scouring the countryside near her North East home but the hunt moved hundreds of miles away at the beginning of May.
Specialist search teams from West Yorkshire and Durham police joined forces to trawl the undergrowth as the hunt for the grandmother approached the third month.
During the search her sister Marion Elsinor, 52, who is a care home cook in County Durham, made an emotional appeal for help to find her.
She said then: ?It?s an ongoing nightmare. It is out of character for her to go off and not to tell anyone where she would be.?
Youngest sister Deborah Leighton, 51, who lives in nearby Consett, added at the time: ?She is an important part of our family as she was the oldest sister.
?As the youngest sister, I always looked up to her. She looked after us as my mum was always working. I just miss her. She needs to come home so we can do the right thing and bury her.
?We need to give her a proper send-off instead of just wondering where she is.?
Detectives vowed to find Pamela?s body as they scoured Muir?s home and locations where the pair might have visited. Officers went through rubbish bins and gardens of houses in The Crescent and neighbouring streets.
Posters were put up around Chester-le-Street appealing for anyone with any information to get in touch. Officers also carried out house-to-house inquiries and forensics teams examined Pamela?s three-bedroom home.
In 1997, Pamela, who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, spoke to the Chronicle when her disability benefit was stopped.
At the time, Pamela, who couldn?t walk, dress, cook or bathe herself, told the Chronicle that she feared she would be deprived of daily visits by a team of helpers.
Source: http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/family-pamela-jackson-soon-find-4026303
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