No criminality in death of woman whose body was found in Kelowna park

A woman, likely in her mid-30’s, was found dead near the Mission Creek Park yesterday.

Officers were called to Mission Creek Park and Mission Creek Greenway area at approximately 3:10 p.m, March 30, to investigate after a body was found by park goers, according to an RCMP media release.

Access to area was closed to the public while the RCMP investigated.

“It was non-criminal," Kelowna RCMP spokesperson Const. Mike Della-Paolera told iNFOnews.ca. "It was just unfortunate."

The woman was a Kelowna resident and her next of kin, who are also local, have been notified.

Della-Paolera declined to make any further comment on the incident out of consideration for the family.


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Rob Munro has a long history in journalism after starting an underground newspaper in Whitehorse called the Yukon Howl in 1980. He spent five years at the 100 Mile Free Press, starting in the darkroom, moving on to sports and news reporting before becoming the advertising manager. He came to Kelowna in 1989 as a reporter for the Kelowna Daily Courier, and spent the 1990s mostly covering city hall. For most of the past 20 years he worked full time for the union representing newspaper workers throughout B.C. He’s returned to his true love of being a reporter with a special focus on civic politics

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