Police have launched a probe after a woman was found dead in her car.

The body of Christine Hilton, 62, from Dalbeattie, Kirkcudbrightshire, was discovered in her vehicle at a car park in Dumfries and Galloway.

She was found in her grey Vauxhall Astra on the A762 approximately a mile north of Laurieston on Tuesday afternoon. Detectives are treating the death as unexplained and a report has been submitted to the Procurator Fiscal.

Detective Inspector Dean Little of Dumfries CID said: “Enquiries have identified that Mrs Hilton’s grey Vauxhall Astra, registered number KD06 YZT, was within the car parking area to the east of Woodhall Loch which is situated one mile north of Laurieston on the A762 New Galloway Road on both Monday 26th and Tuesday 27th of November.

“I am keen to establish when the vehicle arrived at this location and would ask anybody who observed the vehicle there to make contact with the Police.”