Family members had mounted a midnight search for 63-year-old Rose Paterson and a force helicopter was called in before the shock discovery.
Hours earlier she had appeared in good spirits when greeting neighbours while out on her horse. Mrs Paterson, chairman of Aintree racecourse and daughter of the fourth Viscount Ridley, rode regularly in the woods where she was found.
"Rose and I were married for 40 happy years. She was a wonderful, caring wife, mother and grandmother. Her death has come as a terrible shock to us all." "There were police cars driving up and down and the police helicopter was also up," he said. "They told me someone was missing. I’ve known the Patersons for 36 years, before Owen became an MP. They moved in around the same time as us.
It was reported that he had used his ministerial planning powers to call in an appeal it made to build 318 homes and a hotel at Sandown Park racecourse in Surrey. He said it "was a decision taken by another planning minister and upon which I knew none of the facts until it was incorrectly reported". News of Mrs Paterson’s death came a day after it was revealed that Liam Treadwell, a Grand National-winning jockey, had died at his home in Billingsley, at the other end of Shropshire.
Sandy Dudgeon, its senior steward, described Mrs Paterson as a wonderful person, adding: "She was a skilled chairman at Aintree, a valued member of our board of stewards and headed up our horse welfare group. She also enjoyed participating at grassroots level over many years.
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