Pensioner with dementia reported missing from East Renfrewshire home now found
A MISSING pensioner with dementia was found hours after vanishing from her East Renfrewshire home.
Dorothy Hudson had last been seen by relatives on Wednesday at her house in Newton Mearns.
Police believed the 68-year-old had left the property on Lomond Drive and headed toward Patterton train station, about half a mile away.
A helicopter was called in to search for her.
However, officers later confirmed she had been found.
A police statement last night said: "Further to our previous appeal regarding 68-year-old Dorothy Hudson, missing from East Renfrewshire, please note.
"Dorothy has been traced."
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