Friends of Heather Scott say it is fitting her body will never be recovered from the idyllic northern NSW mountainside where she lived for decades.
Friends of a woman buried by a landslip in northern New South Wales say there is comfort in knowing she was claimed by the mountain she loved.The landslip tore away a section of the escarpment during the early hours of February 28, 2022An inquest into the death of Heather Louise Scott has found she died after the house she was in was swept away in a landslide caused by intense rainfall during extreme weather conditions.
State Coroner Teresa O'Sullivan found the cause of the 70-year-old's death was unknown, but that it was a result of a landslip at Upper Wilson's Creek, west of Mullumbimby, in the early hours of February 28, 2022.The inquest heard that two neighbours reported hearing loud rumbling sounds between 3:30am and 4:30am.Later in the morning, when the weather was still poor, attempts to call Mrs Scott's mobile went unanswered.
The force of the slip was so strong it uprooted large trees, dislodged boulders, and carried debris through Ms Scott's home, shattering it and pushing it downhill about 100 metres. Counsel assisting the coroner, Alison Storm, told the inquest the area was so badly damaged that rescue crews were unable to immediately access the site even by air for several days.Even then, crews had to dig by hand to try to find any trace of Ms Scott, but her body was never located.Tom and Marissa McEwan, who lived on the shared property with Mrs Scott for 30 years, said they sensed she was gone on the day of the landslide.
They said they drew some comfort from knowing Mrs Scott was with the earth, and with her husband, whose ashes were scattered on the mountainside after his death in 2001."There is a kind of blessing with the way she passed with the earth.
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