He spoke positively about his plans for this year. in Miami Gardens. For whatever reason, the man travelled nearly 200 miles across England to be there. [5], In January 2017 the body was identified as 67-year-old David Lytton, who had flown into Heathrow Airport from Lahore in Pakistan on 10 December 2015. He was on a small patch of grass, beneath what is known as Robs Rocks. The batch had been manufactured and distributed in Pakistan. Despite warnings that he would not make it back before dark he set off towards the Indians Head summit. Greater Manchester Police confirmed his identity using DNA matching, characterising him as "a bit of a loner" who "liked his own company". But mystery still surrounds what a man with no obvious connections to the Oldham or Saddleworth areas was doing on Saddleworth Moor. We will never know. Det Chief Insp Terry Crompton, of Greater Manchester Police, is still leading the investigation. Just the top of the mountain.. When I spoke to him he just seemed like a normal person just looking at the local interest spots. The body was found at the Saddleworth beauty spot on December 12, 2015. Incident Log 936: Man found deceased, approximate age 65 to 75, Location: Beauty spot, Chew Track from Dovestone Reservoir. He was spotted on CCTV arriving in Manchester at 12:07, having caught the 10:00 train from Euston. About 60% of unidentified cases are resolved in the year that they are found but that leaves many which are not. The concerned landlord told him there was no way he could make it back before sunset but the man set off to the beauty spot undeterred. Craig had gone missing six weeks earlier and was last seen on 6 January 2014 at the home of relatives on Norfolk Crescent, in Failsworth. 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He said: David Lytton therefore has been identified as the deceased male found at the Dovestones Country Park. We are totally devastated that Craig has died, we will never forgot him and will keep his memory alive for his son Little Craig.. Photo courtesy of Clinton police. Something went wrong, please try again later. He spoke about taking his son on holiday and teaching him to swim and ride a bike. The body was found at the Saddleworth reservoir on December 12, 2015. He was identified from photographs from a passenger list and images from CCTV in London. He didnt really know where he was going or what he was doing or what his purpose was of being in the train station, says Chapman. He then walked into Boots, the chemists, which is the shop next door. In March 2017 the BBC reported additional details, many of them taken from interviews with Lytton's former girlfriend Maureen Toogood and various sources in the London area as well as Pakistan. What do we tell him? Neil is one of 744. The second post-mortem explored an injury on his left leg. Coleman is from Greater Manchester Police and leading the investigation to find out who the man was. PERRYVILLE, Md. The quarry next to Dovestone rocks is where the Peregrines nest and climbing is forbidden during that time. His son asks questions about his dad. Others are stamped with the name of the manufacturer. More often than not, people are carrying something from which they can be identified - a mobile phone, credit cards, a travel card. He believes it's the only credible link between him and the area. We are reminded of Craig every single day. Following these enquiries, police are now treating Craigs death as suspicious and a murder investigation has been launched. All this time on from his death, the man on the moor is still in the mortuary at the Royal Oldham Hospital, where he was taken on the day he was found. If X-rays of serious leg injuries over a number of years can be examined, he believes he will finally be able to give the man his proper name. Why did he travel on that day? Police contacted the thyroxine manufacturers, GlaxoSmithKline. At Piccadilly, he ate sandwiches then travelled by train to Saddleworth. The inquest heard he became changed and withdrawn and never recovered from the death of his unborn child. Single - Ealing Broadway to Central London, Return - London Terminals to Manchester Stations. Every time you think youve got a line of enquiry, that enquiry closes very sharply, he says. Or maybe you remember it from Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. In December, 2015, the body of a man was found lying on a remote country track above Dovestone Reservoir in Saddleworth, Oldham. HOUSTON - Remains found in the Sam Houston National Forest earlier this month have been identified as a California woman who disappeared last year . As well as poring over the CCTV footage in London, they have also retraced his steps in Manchester. [4] The man was not known to the authorities in Pakistan and his fingerprints did not match any on record in Pakistan, the UK or other countries. Staff monitor pictures from streets, pavements, parks, stairwells, car parks. Craig had gone missing six weeks earlier and was last seen on 6 January 2014 at the home of relatives on Norfolk Crescent, in Failsworth. Months of searching meant numerous lines of enquiry were followed, including the possibility that he may have links to a plane that was travelling from Belfast to Manchester which crashed on Saddleworth Moor in 1949. Officers attended, with an underwater search team, and later found his body. His parents reported him missing a few days later when he failed to return home. The rock is also very unstable and rockfalls are possible at any time. Tests revealed poisoning and an inquest into his death heard he died after ingesting Strychnine, a highly toxic substance used in rat poison. [14], In 2020 it was speculated that Lytton's interest in the area of Oldham was due to poster advertising in London's public transportation which he must have often seen for years while working as a train driver. The 28-year-olds body was discovered in Dovestones Reservoir on Saddleworth Moor in February 2014, with detectives suspecting he was abducted and murdered. Incident Log 936: Man found deceased, approximate age 65 to 75 Location: Beauty spot, Chew Track from Dovestone Reservoir It was the position of the body which somehow seemed strange. It appeared to me that the male had sat down and had taken the conscious decision to lie backwards.. David Lytton CCTV at Manchester Piccadilly, Police compiled CCTV footage of his movements, An artist's impression used by police in appeals, Mr Lytton's brother, Jeremy Lawton, addresses the media after the inquest. The drug, which is often used as a pesticide, is highly toxic, can causes convulsions and is used in rat poison. Mr Nield used Google Maps to recreate the scene depicted on the posters. We are pleased that we are finally able to update Mr Lyttons family and provide some answers to the questions which have been asked from the start. Gene Rose, 66, of Gustafson . Greaeter Manchester Police have now issued a short statement, and have confirmed Mr Lytton was 67 years old and from London. He planned to get some money together to get his driving licence and then a driving job. One of the things we do see is they may leave some of their personal belongings at home, she says. People of all shapes, sizes and ages are walking over a pedestrian crossing into Ealing Broadway station. Undrawing my tattoos: Why I am having painful laser removal treatment. It also found he had no life-threatening illness. Cyclist Stuart Crowther at the spot where the body was found. It is also what she describes as being in the top ten of unpleasant poisons in terms of ways to die, because of the convulsions it causes. In a statement from Det Sgt John Coleman, read out by the coroner at todays hearing, the court heard that a profile had been set up of the missing man. "What they found was what appeared to be skeletal remains," said Elena Russo of the Maryland State Police, "A fully decomposed . Coroner Simon Nelson told todays hearing enquiries to identify the man were at an end. Want to read, watch and hear more? View history David Lytton (21 April 1948 - 11 or 12 December 2015), formerly known as David Keith Lautenberg and after the discovery of his body by the placeholder name Neil Dovestone, was a previously unidentified British man found dead on Saddleworth Moor, in the South Pennines of Northern England on 12 December 2015. Its sale is banned in many parts of the world including Europe but not Pakistan. The cyclist who found the man thought he looked like he was having a rest, although it was bitterly cold and the rain was torrential. 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He returned to Marks and Spencer and this time he bought a sandwich. You think that youll be able to track him back on CCTV into South Ealing and theres no CCTV. Det Sgt John Coleman told todays hearing that Mr Lytton had travelled to the UK on December 10, 2015, from Lahore airport in Pakistan to Heathrow. A titanium plate was discovered attached to his left femur. He spent a bit longer there but, again, did not seem to spend any money. When they found his train tickets, police officers hoped the answers to his identity could be found in west London. CLIMBING. 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"That would explain how he knew the general area and found Greenfield. Paddy Lacey was a pro footballer but his world fell apart when he received a ban from the sport for breaching anti-doping rules. I told him theres not enough daylight for him to get there and back today. He said that enquiries to identify the man were at an end. With him, police found three train tickets, 130 in cash, all. He left the house at 7pm and did not say where he was going. But this man had nothing. Don't miss a thing by signing up to the MyOldham newsletter here. His head was uphill and his legs were straight downhill - perfectly straight. Coleman says, no matter what happens, the effort has been worth it. 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To recap, this is all the new information we have found out this morning about the man found dead near Dovestone reservoir in December 2015: Detectives know he was poisoned by strychnine - a drug often used in Agatha Christie novels - which he may have administered himself as he neared the peak. Some are photographs, most are artists impressions. Driving along the bumpy track, he notes that the area is very close to where Ian Brady and Myra Hindley buried their child victims in the mid-1960s. It is three years since dad-of-one Craig Wilcox disappeared, and his family are still searching for answers. The man later identified as Lytton died from a lethal dose of strychnine, and is believed by police to have died by suicide. Unfortunately this line of enquiry drew a blank and just as it appeared likely that the investigation would come to an unsuccessful conclusion, a breakthrough came a year to the day that the body was found. He planned to get some money together to get his driving licence and then a driving job. Despite those efforts, posters and media coverage, no one from London has come forward to say they recognise him. Marks and Spencer at Manchester Piccadilly. Rebecca Hales and Julie Berry are pathology technicians there. He is trying to find out the length of time that records are kept in the 12 hospitals which have used the type of titanium plate found in the man on the moors left leg. A post-mortem examination previously revealed that Mr Lytton had an operation in Pakistan to insert a mid-femur titanium plate onto his left thigh bone. Click here to take you back to more Huddersfield news . We have carried out a number of enquiries and as a result are now treating his death as suspicious. It was the site of a fatal aeroplane crash in 1949. One of the Mountain Rescue volunteers wondered whether he had suffered a heart attack while coming back down the hill. The police are hoping that finding out the who might lead to the answers of some of the whys. "Being a London Underground driver - 1985 to 2005 - there's a high probability Mr Lytton saw the posters and was struck by the memorable, unexpected image of beautiful scenery associated with a northern mill town. [9] His parents were also identified as Sylvia and Hyman Lautenberg. Although possibly the biggest question still remains, which is why a man with no obvious connection to Saddleworth chose to head there after returning from Pakistan, we are happy to be able to bring some closure to the investigation and allow the coronial process to be carried out.. As always you can unsubscribe at any time. A MURDER investigation has been launched after the body of a man was found earlier this year in Greenfield. There is only a description - height 6ft 1in, white, slim build, receding grey hair, blue eyes, large nose which might have been broken. Det Sgt Coleman added that enquiries were made with the UK passport office and images and further passenger details were obtained. He said he was satisfied that David Lytton was a positive match for the missing man found at Dovestones. If it was strychnine poisoning that causes you to convulse but he had his arms by his side. Body Found at Dovestones Reservoir: A Case Study. When he got to Manchester he visited the enquiry desk and also bought sandwiches which he ate in the station. The dead body . Why has he undertaken that journey? Coleman asks. A murder investigation has been launched after it emerged a young dad found dead in a Pennines reservoir had told a friend he feared for his safety. 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The body of the man aged between 65 and 75 was found on a remote hillside on 11 December last year. Coleman is now sending the X-rays of the leg to the 12 hospitals which have used this kind of plate and to the Pakistan Orthopaedic Association. Mr Lytton's body was found on Saturday Dec 12 2015 close to the summit of Indian's Head above the Dovestones Reservoir boating lake. The 'AD Toolset' Bundle The AD Toolset has been described as a must-have collection of Active Directory management tools. Former neighbours said he was a croupier who had once worked as a train driver for London Underground and after being made redundant from the casino had taken in lodgers, one of whom was of Pakistani appearance. He eventually obtained a new visa that was about to expire in late 2015 when he was travelling to London, meaning it was his last chance to leave legally without having to reapply. But he did not get a taxi. Once there, and despite wearing smart clothing and shoes not suitable for walking, the man went into The Clarence pub in Greenfield and asked the landlord for directions 'to the mountain' - the steep summit in the Chew Valley. Identification and following investigation, "Police investigating Greenfield moors death mystery go global for answers" "Cops have ruled out that the smart dressed man could be one of two child survivors as one, Michael Prestwich, later died in a train accident while Stephen Evans has contacted police this week.". He doesn't know who ran the advertising campaign. It was about 10.50am on Saturday 12 December when the body was found by a cyclist. We are especially keen to hear from anyone who visited Dovestones from 6 January 2014 and either saw any suspicious activity on that day or the days following, or believe you saw a man matching Craigs description in the area. Our products are used by thousands of organizations, both small and large from Education to Enterprise. If those trees werent there, you would be able to see the hillside where the first of the bodies were found., The mother of 10-year-old Lesley Ann Downey watches police search Saddleworth Moor for her daughter's body, 1965(Getty Images). The statement read: A male matching the profile was identified. It had been suggested the unidentified man . He points out where a British European Airways DC-3 came down in 1949. I have seen a massive chunk of rock . Man Utd defender Lisandro Martinez has thanked the fans for the support they have shown him. He spent about five minutes with a person working at the stations information desk. Det Chf Insp Pete Marsh from Greater Manchester Polices Major Incident Team, said: It was totally out of character for Craig to go missing and when he did not return home his family contacted the police. A full inquest date has been provisionally set for 14 March 2017 at Heywood Coroners Court. The tragic case went on to baffle detectives for many months. The Missing Persons Bureau works with individual police forces to help find out who some of these people are. CCTV images were also traced from London Ealing and Manchester Piccadilly train stations which Det Sgt Coleman also said were a positive match. 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This means the mans operation must have taken place somewhere in Pakistan. The body of 28 year-old Craig Wilcox was discovered in the Dovestones Reservoir late last month, The latest Huddersfield news and updates straight to your inbox. There - we got him, he says, as the clock in the corner of the screen shows 09:03. The dad disappeared after telling a friend people were "after him", Yorkshire breaking news and updates sent straight to your inbox. This means that we may include adverts from us and third parties based on our knowledge of you. He was a fantastic father and he had lots of patience and time with his son. Fortunately he has some memories, but he should have many more.. [13] Salim Aktar, Lytton's close friend for more than 30 years, did not know of Maureen Toogood's existence. The man they are calling Neil was the 42nd unidentified body found in the United Kingdom in 2015. Illustration of a Strychnine tree (Strychnos nux-vomica)(SPL). Date published: 18 April 2018 Print. As well as the clothes and the cash and the tickets, the one other object found on him was the container used to hold the strychnine. My theory on why he was there keeps changing. We are trying to piece together his movements from when he went missing in January to when his body was recovered. We use your sign-up to provide content in the ways you've consented to and improve our understanding of you. It is understood the method used in his operation is very uncommon and would stick in the memory of anyone involved. In the case of the body on the moor, they have been liaising with DS John Coleman and his team. Test yourself with these 12 questions, Do you know your local leaders from your Manchester suburbs? There was international intrigue, and international investigations. After that, he left the station but only briefly before coming back in again. We sat down with thoughts of if youre 65 to 75 years of age, youre a male, youre living in the Ealing area, what are you going to need? 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