A Tenby woman, whose body was found off the town's South Beach after she went missing following a morning walk, drowned accidentally, an inquest concluded last week. Thirty-two-year-old Lucy Harmer was discovered floating in the sea on the evening of July 12 by a local man jogging with his dog along the shore. The inquest, at Milford Haven, heard how Mr. Michael Hughes, of Northcliffe, had spotted a shape in the sea at around 7 pm, after he had been throwing a ball into the water for his labrador to fetch. Mr. Hughes waded in and recovered Lucy's body, before running to find a nearby family, whose mobile phone he used to call the police. Lucy's mother, Mrs. Mary Harmer, told Pembrokeshire Coroner, Mr. Michael Howells, that earlier that day she had received a phone call from Michael Brown, who her daughter was in a relationship with. Mr. Brown, who lives in the town, was worried that Lucy, who had a history of mental health problems, had not returned from a morning walk to Giltar Point, which was described as Lucy's 'special place'. "When Lucy was well, she loved walking and that was one of her spots," said Mrs. Harmer. "I was not initially concerned; I just thought that Lucy had met one of her friends in town and had gone back to their house," explained Mrs. Harmer, who said she was reluctant to phone the police at such an early stage as her daughter had been reported missing on a previous occasion before turning up safe and well. Asked by the coroner how Lucy had been feeling, Mrs. Harmer said that she had seen her a couple of weeks before her death following a spell of treatment she had undergone at Withybush Hospital's Bro Cerwyn unit. "She seemed really bouncy and happy," she remarked. "Although she had so many psychological problems in her life, I never once felt that she would be so depressed as to take her own life." A post mortem on Lucy found injuries to her back and her ribs as well as to her head, while the pathologist's report concluded that the cause of death was drowning. Coroner Mr. Howells was also satisfied from the evidence that Lucy had not intended to take her own life. "Accidents easily happen on high cliff top areas and it's more than likely that she had slipped and fallen," he stated. The coroner delivered a narrative verdict that Lucy died as a result of accidental drowning.