Northern Ireland

Body found in search for missing Co Armagh woman

Dolores Hughes
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A BODY has been found in Lough Neagh during the search for missing Co Armagh woman Dolores Hughes.

The body was recovered from the water on Saturday by Lough Neagh Search and Rescue.

Inspector Keir Kitt said formal identification had not yet taken place but that the Hughes family had been informed.

Mrs Hughes (62), a grandmother and mother-of-four, was from the Grange, a rural area just outside Armagh city.

She was last seen in the Moy area of Co Tyrone on Wednesday, June 5.

Police and volunteer rescue teams had been searching a nine-mile stretch of the Blackwater River since she went missing.

This followed reports that a woman had been seen entering the water.

A red Audi A3, which Mrs Hughes was driving on the day she was last seen, was also discovered close to the river.

Local people had rallied round to help the family and last month a mass was said for Mrs Hughes at the Church of St Colmcille, Knockaconey.