Tributes paid to Frankie Warren after body found in Sedgley woodland
Family and friends today paid tribute to a woman whose body was discovered in woodland in Sedgley after she vanished from home 50 miles away.
Police made the discovery on Friday night on land off Hickmerelands Lane near to where Frankie Warren's car was abandoned. The body was formally identified over the weekend.
The office worker, aged 26, disappeared from her home in Thornbury, Gloucester, on Wednesday.
Her friends have taken to social networking websites to share their grief and thank all those who helped with the search.
One wrote on the Facebook group 'Frankie Warren still missing': "Thank you so much for all your help and support searching for Frankie. Unfortunately, the search has come to a conclusion in a way we all most feared."
Dozens of Sedgley residents joined Frankie's friends, family and police in a frantic search for her after police tracked her silver Honda Civic to Sedgley using number plate recognition cameras.
She is not thought to have had any links to the area and had left home without any belongings or money and with only £20 of petrol in her car.
On her Facebook page, Maxine Cotton, mother of Frankie's boyfriend Sam, thanked the people of Sedgley for their help with the search.
She wrote: "Can I just say a big big thank you to everyone who turned up today to help with the search for Frankie, friends colleagues even complete strangers all worked together in their efforts to find her. Also a huge thank you to the lovely people and residents of Sedgley who have been so kind and helpful to us, even Greggs who gave us coffee and cakes, thank you everyone."
Later she added: "Frankie Roo you have left such a massive hole in our hearts and lives that we can never fill.
"I feel so sad that we will never see you again, our hearts are broken. Rest in peace beautiful girl we love you x x x."
Chief Supt Stuart Johnson of West Midlands Police said on Twitter: "Tragic conclusion to the major search operation in Sedgley. Our thoughts are with the deceased's family as we report to the coroner.
"Thank you to all the residents in the Sedgley Hall Park area for their support as officers carried out the open ground search."
A West Midlands Police spokesman confirmed the death was not being treated as suspicious.
