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| Joy Grigg |
A man woke up one morning and realized that his wife wandered off in middle of the night.
The wife of a farmer disappeared after climbing out of her kitchen window while sleepwalking. She was found several hours later and nine miles away from her home, according to a statement released by police in Launceston, Cornwall, England.
Joy Grigg, 50, sparked a police search after disappearing in the early hours of Wednesday morning. Her husband Richard, 53, woke up to find his wife gone and the kitchen window open.
The mother of two children had been missing since early Wednesday morning before she was found near Camelford, Cornwall, at night.
It was the second time she has sparked a police search this year after wandering five miles away, in January.
Richard Grigg, who lives on the farm with Joy Grigg, and his two sons, Martin, 27, and Geoff, 25, said: "It is so great that she has found. She's in the hospital, and we just want to get our lives back. We are trying to get things back to normal. Everyone is very relieved and very anxious for her to return home. We were all very concerned for her safety and with the passage of time, obviously, concern grew, but that is over now that she has been found. She's a very sensitive person, a loving mother and wife, and we are delighted to have her back."
Grigg was found just before the search and rescue team was about to suspend the search for the night.
“Sleepwalking is extremely dangerous. I think that people suffering from sleepwalking should chain themselves to their bed in order to avoid wandering off,” Brenda King, 35, of London, England told YourJewishNews.com after learning about Joy Grigg’s sleepwalking.
Richard Grigg, her husband of 28 years, said it's not the first time Joy Grigg disappeared.
He said: "She was lost before, about six or seven weeks ago, that time she was found five miles away. We managed to bring her back by calling her cell phone multiple times. Apparently, the vibration of the cell phone woke her up."