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Dartmoor Haytor deaths: Search for Katherine Hooper mobile | Dartmoor Haytor deaths: Search for Katherine Hooper mobile |
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Police are trying to trace a mobile phone belonging to a mother who fell to her death on Dartmoor with her five-year-old son. | Police are trying to trace a mobile phone belonging to a mother who fell to her death on Dartmoor with her five-year-old son. |
Officers believe the phone could be crucial in gathering evidence of Katherine Hooper's final hours. | |
She is thought to have discarded it on the moor where she slept rough with her son Joshua Patterson on the night before her death. | She is thought to have discarded it on the moor where she slept rough with her son Joshua Patterson on the night before her death. |
Ms Hooper's son Samuel, two, was later found dead at her home in Paignton. | Ms Hooper's son Samuel, two, was later found dead at her home in Paignton. |
Police believe she may have killed him before leaping to her death from Haytor. | Police believe she may have killed him before leaping to her death from Haytor. |
'No sighting' | 'No sighting' |
Ms Hooper took a taxi from her home in Paignton to Dartmoor the day before she died, arriving at Haytor at about midday last Thursday. | |
Senior investigating officer Det Supt Paul Burgan, of Devon and Cornwall Police, said: "We have no sighting of her in that last 24 hours before she died. | |
"Knowing what happened is critical to the investigation in finding out her state of mind." | "Knowing what happened is critical to the investigation in finding out her state of mind." |
Police are at Haytor appealing for anyone who saw Ms Hooper and Joshua. | Police are at Haytor appealing for anyone who saw Ms Hooper and Joshua. |
They have released CCTV pictures of Ms Hooper entering the Spar in Kings Ash Road, Paignton while on her way by taxi to Dartmoor. | |
Officers have launched two murder investigations into the deaths of the two boys, but said they were not seeking anyone else. | Officers have launched two murder investigations into the deaths of the two boys, but said they were not seeking anyone else. |
Det Sup Burgan said: " It's an extremely difficult and traumatic investigation." | Det Sup Burgan said: " It's an extremely difficult and traumatic investigation." |
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