Police are not treating the death as suspicious. Photo: RNZ / REECE BAKER
Police have found the body of a woman who has been missing from Māngere for nearly three months.
Eileen 'Ella' Davenport, 57, had been missing from her Hain Avenue home since 20 June 2025.
Detective Senior Sergeant Mike Hayward, of Counties Manukau West CIB, said on 10 September police located a body in a reserve near Savill Drive.
"Police had been carrying out a search operation as part of ongoing enquiries to locate her," he said in a statement.
"The area being searched consisted of dense scrub and a creek which flows into the Manukau Estuary.
"It has taken us some time, but we can confirm that the body has now been formally identified as Ms Davenport."
The police were not treating the death as suspicious and she had been returned to her whānau, he said.
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