Tuesday 27th March 2012

After news came of the sad death of pensioner Roy Barnes today, the Edale Mountain Rescue Team also issued a statement.


The rescue Team and Police RV for search for missing Dronfield man, Roy Barnes

"Edale Mountain Rescue Team was called alongside the Search and Rescue Dogs Association (SARDA) and members of Derby and Woodhead Teams, by Derbyshire Police, to help search for a vulnerable man in his late seventies, on Thursday last week.

Volunteers searched throughout the day and night of Thursday and throughout Friday, over the local golf course and surrounding woodland and the semi-rural area close to the man's home.

Sadly the man was found deceased in a pond, by some walkers, on Sunday 25th March, outside the area searched by the teams, and considerably further from home than he had been thought able to walk.

Police are not treating his death as suspicious.

The teams were thanked by the local police for having taken time and effort in searching for the man, despite the very sad outcome. Mountain Rescue teams and Search Dogs are often called to search for missing vulnerable people, not only in the hills and mountains of the UK but in lowland areas, where their specialist search capabilities are highly regarded by the police."

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