Woman left care home 2 hours earlier than claimed

A JURY has found that an elderly woman who went missing from a nursing home on Christmas night and whose remains were found more than two years later on Bray Head had left the facility at least two hours earlier than staff at the home maintained.

Maura Reynolds, 78, care of Tara Care Centre, Putland Road, Bray, Co Wicklow was reported missing to gardaí after 7am on December 26, 2005, Dublin City Coroner’s Court heard yesterday.

Ms Reynolds’s remains were discovered in dense undergrowth on a very inaccessible area of Bray Head on February 19, 2008, less than a kilometre from the nursing home.