Missing Abbey Lamont-Salter’s body found in Helensburgh bushland
Police have found the body of a 24-year-old woman in bushland south of Sydney, 24 hours after she was reported missing by her family.
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Abbey Lamont-Salter was last seen in the Illawarra region, south of Sydney, on Monday. Her body was found in bushland near Helensburgh around 7.30pm on Tuesday.
Her death is not being treated as suspicious.
Abbey has been remembered as a daughter, sister and aunty who “everyone would gravitate to” and someone who would “light up a room”.
Casey Knight, 28, told The Daily Telegraph her little sister was an amazing woman.
“She was so funny, just so funny. When she walked into a room people would just gravitate towards her. She would light up the room. I think it just showed that by how the post about her missing went viral,” she said.
“She loved music. Any music that would get a crowd pumping. She grew up dancing and when we were kids we used to spend every afternoon dancing – it was just in her.
“She was an amazing aunty, she has three nephews and a niece that will miss her. She was one of those people who was just good at everything she tried – I would joke that its annoying that she was like that and so pretty.”
She said her sister had a “rough year” and her death has shattered their mother.
Her car was found by police parked near bushland on Otford Rd, Helensburgh about 3pm on Tuesday.
Officers scoured the nearby bushland with the help of the SES and Rural Fire Service before her body was found in the evening.
A report will be prepared for the coroner.
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