Police helicopter finds body
POLICE have called off the search for 71-year-old Baden Powell after a body was discovered in a field at Ulley.
Officers confirmed today that the South Yorkshire Police helicopter had located the body.
Mr Powell had not been seen alive since discharging himself from Rotherham Hospital at around 3pm on Sunday.
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Hide AdIt was understood that he may have attempted to reach his home in Tinsley on foot after leaving hospital where he had received treatment for a head injury sustained in a fall at the Rhinoceros pub in Bridgegate.
A police spokeswoman said: “Formal identification of the body will need to take place and a post mortem will be carried out to establish cause of death, though it is not thought to be suspicious.”
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