Shropshire Star

Chirk pensioner's canal death remains a mystery

A pensioner drowned after walking on one of her favourite canalside paths, an inquest heard.

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The canal at Gledrid. Photo: Google SteetView.

What caused 89-year-old widow Glenys Thomas to fall into the Llangollen Canal remained a mystery after the hearing in Ruthin yesterday.

Her body was found in the canal at Gledrid, near the Poacher’s Pocket pub, on New Year’s Day, a short while after her son Mike Thomas had reported her missing from her home about half a mile away in Chirk.

Mr Thomas told the inquest that his mother had a mastectomy in 2001 and in August 2016, the cancer returned. When told of the diagnosis, however, she was “quite chipper” and seemed to accept the fact.