Police say they believe a body found in a Burntwood field is that of a missing woman.
Amanda Hawkins, 44 and from Darlaston, went missing from her assisted accommodation complex on Sutton Road, Moxley, on May 30. She was last seen getting off a bus in Lichfield Road at the junction of Barnetts Lane in Brownhills at around 4pm.
Police were called at around 6.20pm last night (July 22) after a body was found on farmland off Meerash Lane, Burntwood.
Detective Chief Inspector Chris Wilkes, from Walsall Police, said: “While the deceased is yet to be formally identified, preliminary inquiries lead us to believe that this may be Amanda. That is why we have told her family of the discovery by colleagues in Staffordshire Police.
“The thoughts of all our officers remain with them today.”
Further tests and a post mortem examination will now take place to confirm the identity and a cause of death.
Amanda’s family had made emotional appeals to help trace her following her disappearance, while police had searched on the ground and from the air.
