Mystery of Kelly’s missing days

MYSTERY surrounds the circumstances that befell an American hiker who spent four days lost on the western tip of Donegal before she was found safe but disorientated in a vacant holiday home.

Kelly Jones, 41, was located yesterday in the old rectory in Glencolmcille, 600 metres from the base set up by the search teams looking for her since the weekend. She was suffering from hypothermia and could not explain why she had not returned to the hostel.

She disappeared on Saturday and rescue teams had searched the house where she was eventually found, as late as Monday morning. Ms Jones was not there at the time.