The body of a woman reported missing after her car was abandoned on the M4 Prince of Wales Bridge has been found.
The family of Caroline Newman have paid an emotional tribute to the 47-year-old from Berkeley who was reported missing on September 6.
Her body was recently discovered by police and her next of kin and the coroner have been informed. Gloucestershire police has today released a tribute from her family
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Family tribute to Caroline Newman
Caroline was born on 17 July, 1974 and grew up in Hillesley, Wooton-Under-Edge. A great animal lover, she went on to study Zoology at Reading University.
She met her husband Richard in 2004 when she was a civil servant working as a Rural Payment Agent and she came to inspect his farm. They met again at a local dance a few months later and eventually married in 2007.
Caroline was a wonderful, devoted mother to their two boys - she lived and breathed her children.
She was a strong, opinionated woman with an abundance of empathy.
Caroline was passionate about the outdoors, her horses and riding.
She was a friendly and popular member of the community with many friends - she was well known and well liked.
Caroline will be sadly missed by all of her family and friends, who would like to thank all the emergency service personnel involved in the search for her.
The family ask that their privacy is respected at this time.
In launching the missing person appeal, police said Ms Newman had arranged to stay in a hotel in Newport but she was not there.
Gwent police had found her car on the bridge across the River Severn in the early hours of Monday, September 6.
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