floating in the water around five miles west of the beautiful and deeply religious island of Iona. What’s left is precious DNA, her black hiking style trousers – no labels for clues – and her distinctive size 8.5 German-made Meindl brand walking boots. A search of current missing person cases in Scotland and then across the wider UK failed to find any match. “From the west coast of Iona, there’s Canada, we’re looking at Greenland, the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Norway. “From what we know, it was found in the water by a fishing boat, a fair bit off Iona.

Source: The Herald February 20, 2026 20:35 UTC