Police name Ross hill death man

By SPP Reporter

Published: 16:38, 23 April 2013

| Updated: 16:41, 23 April 2013

The man had been walking in the Fannichs, south of Braemore.

POLICE have named a man who died in a fall from a Ross-shire mountain at the weekend.

He was 54-year-old David Beattie from Aberdeen.

A search was sparked for Mr Beattie after he failed to return from a walking expedition in the Fannich hills, south of Braemore near Ullapool, on Sunday.

Members of Dundonnell Mountain Rescue Team assisted by an RAF Mountain Rescue Team and a helicopter were involved in the operation.

Rescuers recovered his body on Sunday afternoon.

Police name Ross hill death man

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