A woman found dead on Wimbledon Common on Saturday had been reported missing to police the day before.
The woman, who has not been named but is described as in her sixties, was found shortly before 11.30am near to Camp Road in the Common on Saturday, April 23.
Merton and Wandsworth police have confirmed that the woman had been reported missing to Wandsworth police on Friday, April 22.
Her death is being treated as unexplained.
A spokeswoman from the London Ambulance Service said they were called at 11.26am to Camp Road to reports of a woman not breathing.
She said: “It seems as if she was dead even when we arrived.
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"We didn’t treat her, but we did attend and confirm she was deceased.
"She was pronounced dead at the scene.”
Chief executive of Wimbledon and Putney Common Conservators, Simon Lee, said he believed a member of the public had found the woman and called the emergency services.
Wimbledon Common
He said: “It’s very sad. We don’t know much about it at all at the moment. Our thoughts are obviously with her family.
“Police have told us that they aren’t treating it as a suspicious incident, but any incident of this nature is obviously terribly sad for our staff and people visiting the common.
“It’s very difficult.”
Manager of the nearby Fox and Grapes pub, Liam Carlisle, said he saw police, ambulances and fire engines heading towards Camp Road on Saturday lunchtime.
He said: “No one has come into us. We haven’t actually had any visit from the police to tell us what happened.
“We have got a retirement home next to us, so we assumed it might have been an accident to do with something there.
“Myself and my colleague were staring out of the window while the emergency services were going by. It’s not the normal thing you would see around here.”
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