POLICE searching for missing Chester-le-Street woman Pamela Jackson have found a body in Calderdale.
Officers from Durham Constabulary have been meticulously combing moors above the M62 for more than a month.
Yesterday afternoon they confirmed a woman’s body was discovered off Turvin Road, near Ripponden.
No formal identification has yet been made.
Last night, police vehicles were parked up at the roadside and a blue and white police tent covered a spot several metres from the road.
A line of cones marked a path from the road to the tent.
Pamela Jackson vanished from her home on March 7.
Her partner, Adrian Muir, 50, from Sowerby Bridge, has been charged with her murder. He will appear at Newcastle Crown Court on June 11.
Officers from the Durham Constabulary first travelled to Calderdale in the hunt for the missing 55-year-old grandmother in early April.
Ms Jackson’s sisters, Deborah Leighton, 51, Marion Elsinor, 52, and other family members also visited the area and left flowers on the fell tops.
The search initially focused on moorland around the M62 but it was hampered by snow and bad weather.
Search teams using specially-trained dogs returned later in April to search around Blackstone Edge Reservoir.
Earlier this month the search went underwater with police dive teams brought in to systematically search all the reservoirs in the area.
West Yorkshire Police assisted the investigation by sending their helicopter to take aerial pictures of the scene.
Ms Jackson had three sons, Andrew, Christopher and Joe, and four grandchildren aged 18 to 10 months.
She was the eldest of four daughters who grew up in Newcastle.
