A devastated brother has paid a touching tribute to a lacking Scots dad after his physique was pulled from a river. Ian Ambrose was final seen within the city centre of Newton Stewart, Dumfries and Galloway, on Saturday, July 23, earlier than the alarm was raised.
A physique discovered within the River Cree on Wednesday afternoon has now been formally recognized by police as being the 50-year-old. There aren't any obvious suspicious circumstances and a report will likely be submitted to the Procurator Fiscal as is routine for all sudden deaths.
His brother Sid, who based the Wickerman Pageant, has penned a fantastic tribute to his sibling who he stated was “by no means destined to die in an previous of us dwelling”. The touching memorial learn: “A star that burns twice as brilliant solely burns half as lengthy. I at all times stated having Ian as a brother was like having ten brothers. [He] was an unstoppable pressure in his youthful days.
“Hours and hours of exhausting work with Harpermafrost was inevitably adopted by some even tougher partying. Raves, festivals, seaside and bothy events in his psychedelic bull-nose Transit van. He additionally competed in trials and hill climbs on hand-crafted machines constructed by him and Jimmy Harper.
“In latter years, a lot of his time was spent in his varied sheds at Palnure constructing furnishings and likewise air flow cupboards for refrigeration jobs. These had been his happiest years pottering about with canine, chickens and younger Ian and Chloe operating across the backyard.
“The previous couple of years in Newton Stewart noticed him fade away in my view. Sick well being robbed him of his important spark and many folks by no means knew [him] from the glory days. His disappearance and subsequent passing has proven his household that he was surrounded by nicely wishers even when that in all probability got here as a shock to him.
“He was by no means destined to die in an previous of us dwelling. Dying by misadventure was at all times a definite chance. RIP brither see you on the facet in some unspecified time in the future.”
A press release from Police Scotland stated: “We are able to affirm the physique of a person has been recovered from the River Cree in Newton Stewart through the afternoon of Wednesday, 27 July.
“He has been recognized as Ian Ambrose, 50, who had been reported lacking from the native space. There aren't any obvious suspicious circumstances and a report will likely be submitted to the Procurator Fiscal in the end.”
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