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divdiv class=story-body readability=26 span class=story-date#13; span class=date7 November 2013/span#13; span class=time-textLast updated at /spanspan class=time00:09 ET/span#13; #13; /span#13; #13; #13; #13; #13; #13; #13; #13; #13; p class=introduction id=story_continues_1The police search for a missing British woman whose body was eventually found in the stairwell of a San Francisco hospital was flawed, the local sheriff has admitted./p#13; pLynne Spalding, 57, from Peterlee, County Durham, was being treated at the city's General Hospital when she disappeared on 21 September./p#13; pHer body was found 17 days later in one of the hospital's exterior stairwells./p#13; pSheriff Ross Mirkarimi said he wanted to make sure it never happened again./p#13; pMs Spalding, who moved to San Francisco several years ago, was being treated for a bladder infection at the hospital./p#13; pFollowing her disappearance, the hospital was searched and police opened a missing person investigation./p#13; pSheriff Mirkarimi told reporters at City Hall that deputies searching for Ms Spalding had failed to look in all the stairwells./p#13; pThey also had the wrong racial description for the mother of two and waited days to share surveillance footage./p#13; #13; pShe could have been anyone's loved one, which is why the gravity of the situation is not lost on any of us,'' Sheriff Mirkarimi said. /p#13; p`What happened to Miss Spalding Ford should not have happened to anyone.''/p#13; pMs Spalding's family has previously criticised the slow progress of the police and hospital investigation into how she was able to remain missing for so long./p#13; pMs Spalding, who was mother to a 23-year-old daughter and a son, aged 19, had worked in the travel industry./p#13; pThe local medical examiner has yet to say how she died./p#13; /div/divbrbrcentera href=http://www.wizardrss.comPowered By WizardRSS.com/a | a href=http://www.wizardrss.comFull Text RSS Feed/a | a href=http://www.amazon.com/RFID-Blocking-Cards-Identity-Protector/dp/B00CJHZLEWRFID/a | a href=http://www.wpzonbuilder.comAmazon Affiliate/a/center