British woman and husband found dead after failed Atlantic crossing

Clibbery and Packwood on their boat Theros in 2018. They are thought to have abandoned the yacht and died before washing up on Sable Island. Photograph: Sarah Justine Packwood

The bodies of a couple who were on a sailing trip across the Atlantic Ocean have been found on a life raft that washed up on a remote Canadian island almost six weeks after they were last seen.

Briton Sarah Packwood, 54, and her Canadian husband, Brett Clibbery, 70, are thought to have abandoned their yacht and died before washing up on Sable Island – known as the “graveyard of the Atlantic” – east of Nova Scotia in Canada on 12 July.