Qld: Man found in bushland after mother found dead

AAP General News (Australia)
02-10-2008
Qld: Man found in bushland after mother found dead

Searchers have found the 68-year-old son of an elderly woman discovered dead near his
car in north Queensland yesterday.

COLIN WILSON took his 92-year-old mother IDA WILSON for a drive last Thursday afternoon
.. and failed to return her to her Mareeba nursing home.

Ms WILSON'S body was found yesterday .. close to her son's four-wheel drive about 20
kilometres east of Mareeba .. at Davies Creek off the Kennedy Highway.

Police are treating her death as suspicious.

They say Mr WILSON wandered into a search party at Davies Creek about eight o'clock
this morning .. and has been taken to Mareeba Hospital.

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KEYWORD: WILSON FOUND (BRISBANE)

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