Body found in search for wife of Scotland rugby star Scott Hastings

A body has been found in the search for the wife of Scott Hastings, the former Scotland rugby player, who went missing after swimming in an estuary in Edinburgh, police have said.

Jenny Hastings has been missing since Tuesday after failing to return from Wardie Bay after going for a swim in the Firth of Forth, according to her family.

At about 3.20pm on Saturday the body of a woman was found in the Hound Point area of South Queensferry, police said.

Formal identification has yet to take place but Hastings’s family have been informed, the force added.

Police said on Saturday evening that there do not appear to be any suspicious circumstances and a report will be submitted to the procurator fiscal.

The Maritime and Coastguard Agency said it received a “report of concern” at about 2.45pm on Tuesday and a helicopter, Coastguard rescue teams, lifeboats and other nearby vessels all took part in a search but it was unsuccessful that day.

Earlier this week, the Hastings family revealed the police were treating her disappearance as a “high-risk missing persons case”, explaining that the 60-year-old mother of two had previously struggled with mental health problems.

As an ambassador for the Support in Mind Scotland mental health charity alongside her husband, one of Scotland’s most-capped rugby players, Hastings spoke out in 2014 about her experience of battling depression for decades.

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