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Missing woman found

A woman who went missing from from Carlton near Leyburn has been found.

Veronica Margaret Esarte-Sarries, 64, was reported missing at 9.50pm on Monday 25 June having last had contact with her family at 8.30am that morning.

Extensive police searches were carried out in the area with the assistance of Swaledale Mountain Rescue Team.

Veronica was found near the village yesterday (Wednesday 27 June).

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Concern for missing Leyburn woman

Veronica Margaret Esarte-Sarries
Veronica Margaret Esarte-Sarries was reported missing early on Monday morning Credit: North Yorkshire Police

Police are appealing for the public’s help to locate a woman who has gone missing from Carlton near Leyburn.

64-year-old Veronica Margaret Esarte-Sarries was reported missing yesterday (Monday) morning.

Veronica is described as white, 5ft 3in, medium build with blonde, slightly greying, collar length hair, grey eyes and thought to be wearing a black jacket and jeans.

Extensive police searches are being carried out in the area with the assistance of Swaledale Mountain Rescue Team.

Concerned for missing Leyburn woman

Police are appealing for the public’s help to locate a woman who has gone missing from Carlton near Leyburn.

64-year-old Veronica Margaret Esarte-Sarries was reported missing yesterday morning.

Veronica is described as white, 5ft 3in, medium build with blonde, slightly greying, collar length hair, grey eyes and thought to be wearing a black jacket and jeans.

Extensive police searches are being carried out in the area with the assistance of Swaledale Mountain Rescue Team.

Woman sentenced for hammer attack on 84-year-old woman

Ellen Margaret Louise Pounder
Ellen Margaret Louise Pounder Credit: North Yorkshire Police

Ellen Margaret Louise Pounder, of Carperby near Leyburn, has been sentenced to an indefinite hospital order for attacking an 84-year-old woman with a hammer.

In November last year, Pounder was arrested after hitting the victim with a hammer and a stick. The 84-year-old woman was attacked in public toilets and left with a serious head injury. Her handbag was taken and later found in a separate block of public toilets.

Teesside Crown Court granted the hospital order under Section 37 of the Mental Health Act 1983.

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