Jesmond Dene

Incident Type: Search

Overnight on Thursday and into the early hours of Friday morning, North of Tyne Mountain Rescue Team and ourselves worked alongside Northumbria Police officers searching for the missing hospital chaplain in the Jesmond Dene area of Newcastle.

Five search groups and a Mountain Rescue Search Dog England team were deployed to search open, wooded, overgrown and steep sided areas in and around Jesmond Dene. Handheld thermal imaging units were used throughout the search. A Tyne & Wear Fire & Rescue Service drone with thermal imaging was also utilised to overfly some of the area.

Despite a long night and everyone’s best efforts nothing was found and the Teams stood down at about 03.00hrs. Tragically, later on Friday morning a body was found by the Police outside of the areas searched overnight.

A truly heartbreaking outcome and our thoughts are with the missing person’s family and friends at this incredibly difficult time.

The incident involved 24 Team members for 7 hours 16 minutes.