The pet dog of a PCSO who was found dead had stayed with her body after she died, it has been claimed. Kent Police confirmed this afternoon the death of Julia James, 53, is being treated as murder.
Detectives are continuing to establish the circumstances after her body was found on a woodland path in Snowdown on Tuesday - though no arrests have been made.
Mrs James is understood to have been working from home and out walking her white Jack Russell mongrel when she died. Neighbour Sean Simmonds, 57, said: "The police have been doing door to door knocks.
They told us the dog stayed with her. They found the dog with her." Officers were called shortly after 4pm on Tuesday to Akholt Wood in the Aylesham Road area of Snowdown where Mrs James'
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