British holiday rep Jacqueline Tennant's body found in Mallorca mountains
Wednesday, August 26, 2015 @ 1:58 PM
A DECOMPOSED body found in a Mallorca mountain range is confirmed as being the missing British walker Jacqueline Tennant, who vanished on October 9, 2007.
The 45-year-old had been out climbing in the Sierra de Tramuntana when she disappeared, and authorities have spent eight years searching for her.
But a mountaineer negotiating a rocky zone nearly impossible to reach by all bar the most experienced hikers with full equipment found human remains hidden in the undergrowth on Sunday, police have just revealed.
The missing woman's ID documents were said to be in a rucksack next to the body, discovered in an area which takes over an hour and a half to reach from the remote country lane linking Pollença and Lluc.
Guardia Civil mountain rescue specialists accompanied the climber who found the body so he could show them where she was.
She was taken to Palma de Mallorca's forensic anatomy institute for a post-mortem, but it was already a foregone conclusion that the remains were those of Jacqueline.
The Guardia Civil has been working closely alongside the British Consulate for the Balearic Islands.
Details of the tragic discovery have only just been released, since her family had to be contacted before it could be made public.
Jacqueline, of Jamaican origin but a British national, worked as a swimming instructor at Hotel Holiday Village Viva in Can Picafort.
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