At Piccadilly, he ate sandwiches then travelled by train to Saddleworth. 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. We were excited. 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There was international intrigue, and international investigations. "It's also likely he researched all the steps in his journey from Pakistan to Greenfield by surfing the internet - he spent a lot of time in internet cafs while living in Pakistan," he said. The inquest was told Mr Lytton moved suddenly to live with a friend in Pakistan in 2006. After leaving Manchester Piccadilly station there is a missing 59 minutes in the timeline. Going back a lot further, to the 1800s, a landlord and his son were murdered by unknown assailants and, a few years later, there was the accidental shooting of an MP. CLIMBING. A post mortem was carried out, but the result was inconclusive. [4] He walked to the moor on the afternoon of 11 December, from Greenfield, where he made enquiries at the Clarence pub about walking to Wimberry Stones. 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. Coleman says it is not unheard of to find no forms of ID on a body. The area is by Saddleworth Moor, part of the Peak District National Park. Don't miss a thing by signing up to the MyOldham newsletter here. There - we got him, he says, as the clock in the corner of the screen shows 09:03. An international police investigation was launched in a bid to identify the body, nicknamed Neil Dovestones by mortuary workers at Royal Oldham Hospital. After more than a year of painstaking enquiries, which included media appeals being released in the UK and Pakistan, as well as assistance from the National Crime Agency, detectives investigating the mysterious case of Neil Dovestones have made a positive identification. The rock is also very unstable and rockfalls are possible at any time. It was then that he was finally seen talking to someone. He said he was satisfied that David Lytton was a positive match for the missing man found at Dovestones. Investigating detectives surmised the man may have been Stephen Evans, a survivor of the crash, but it was discounted after the BBC worked out, based on the 1949 report and the police statement, that he worked at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and contacted him. Police contacted the thyroxine manufacturers, GlaxoSmithKline. "The trees in the foreground have grown since the poster was made.". No wallet, no keys. The investigation into his true identity captured significant media attention, both in the UK and internationally, with the press office receiving calls from countries such as Pakistan, USA and Japan. Something went wrong, please try again later. It confirmed that officers had checked passenger records from a flight from Lahore in Pakistan which tallied with Mr Lytton's details. And he just set off.. We also may change the frequency you receive our emails from us in order to keep you up to date and give you the best relevant information possible. ", "Tribute to Maureen Toogood, 1947 - 2020", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=David_Lytton&oldid=1132323515, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 8 January 2023, at 09:39. Theres a fairly good assumption, he says, that he has potentially come from South Ealing station. Martin points out that South Ealing is a London Underground station on the Piccadilly line and happens to be a few stops from Heathrow Airport. He then contacted Greater Manchester Police to confirm he was still alive. I imagine he was asking directions or having a discussion about what his plans were., Caught on CCTV a few minutes before he left the station. It appeared to me that the male had sat down and had taken the conscious decision to lie backwards.. To try to answer some of those questions - and to find out anything they could - police officers have been examining his behaviour. Coleman has been a police officer for about 20 years. His next stop was WHSmith, the stationers. DALY CITY, Calif. ( KRON) A dead body was found by a hiker on a Daly City trail on Wednesday, the city's police department said in a press release. ", Winners of Manchester's Be Proud Awards 2022 celebrating incredible heroes in our communities revealed. The 28-year-old's body was discovered in Dovestones Reservoir on Saddleworth Moor in February 2014, with detectives suspecting he was abducted and murdered.. Parents Carolyn and Stephen Wilcox have now issued a plea for information, three years to the day after he disappeared from his . 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. Until now he had been nicknamed Neil Dovestone by mortuary workers at Royal Oldham Hospital. The map shows the main climbing areas but there are also many individual rocks for 'bouldering' scattered around. He points out where a British European Airways DC-3 came down in 1949. "It was an ad campaign to try and get businesses into Oldham and the surrounding area. The discovery was made around 8 a.m. at 6731 Memorial Drive . According to her, Lytton was interested in religions and owned several copies of the Quran. He was positive about the future for the first time in a long time. A FAMILY has been left devastated after a body was found in the search for a missing teen, who vanished five months ago. A provisional cause of death has been determined as strychnine poisoning. ", Winners of Manchester's Be Proud Awards 2022 celebrating incredible heroes in our communities revealed. Dead body found in Hillsborough apartment with unharmed infant In December, 2015, the body of a man was found lying on a remote country track above Dovestone Reservoir in Saddleworth, Oldham. [10] Jeremy Lawton described that his brother meticulously "compartmentalised" his life in a way that his friends and family would not interact. 'A lovely man': The woman who dated the Man on the Moor The investigation into his true identity captured significant media attention, both in the UK and internationally, with the press office receiving calls from countries such as Pakistan, USA and Japan. The hope is that the X-rays will be matched with a particular patient's records. [13] Salim Aktar, Lytton's close friend for more than 30 years, did not know of Maureen Toogood's existence. Every time you think youve got a line of enquiry, that enquiry closes very sharply, he says. But the one remaining survivor is alive and well. [9] The family changed their name to Lawton in 1969.[10]. Craig was very close to his Mum, Carolyn and used to talk her all the time. Just across the valley, probably 200 yards away, is the site of an avalanche, in 1963, which claimed the lives of two of Englands best mountaineers at the time.. Greaeter Manchester Police have now issued a short statement, and have confirmed Mr Lytton was 67 years old and from London. Oldham News | News Headlines | Tube clue to Dovestone mystery body Detectives suspect he was brought to the reservoir, murdered and his body thrown into the water, and remain positive they will find justice for the family. A missing from home investigation was launched until Craigs body was sadly discovered on 24 February 2014. He then boarded a train to Saddleworth and visited The Clarence pub, where he asked the landlord for directions. 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Dovestone Reservoir death mystery deepens after Stephen Evans - Metro He was lying on his back, 700 metres down from Chew reservoir, at a place where the track widens to allow. As a family, we are asking if anyone can help us find the answers we are looking for.. 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. On 4 February, it was reported that Lytton's long-term girlfriend, also from Streatham, had helped him through bouts of depression, he had a brother, and that he had changed his surname following a family feud. Photo courtesy of Clinton police. But when Detective Sergeant John Coleman saw the body, he immediately thought there was something more deliberate. David Lytton - Wikipedia When I spoke to him he just seemed like a normal person just looking at the local interest spots. He will never now be with his son at Christmas, birthdays, holidays and special days in his sons life. Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right. He had no links at all to the Saddleworth area, he confirmed. Caroline and Stephen said they believe someone out there knows what happened to their son. 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. More often than not, people are carrying something from which they can be identified - a mobile phone, credit cards, a travel card. Instead, he came back into the station. document.getElementById( "ak_js" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); If you would like to contribute to About Manchester, contact us here. Before the strychnine, it had originally contained thyroxine sodium - a drug used by people with an underactive thyroid. Want to read, watch and hear more? After eating his food, he walked back down the stairs and went outside to the taxi rank. Man Utd defender Lisandro Martinez has thanked the fans for the support they have shown him. He spoke about taking his son on holiday and teaching him to swim and ride a bike. He did not tell Toogood but mentioned to neighbours that he could not afford the mortgage anymore. I think collectively as a department we decided that it would be nice to give him some kind of identity, Hales recalls. The last of the questions above was answered first. These particular plates have been used by just 12 hospitals, all in Pakistan. Obviously, foliage has changed over the years, but Mr Nield believes its as accurate as he can get based on memory. He says when he first saw him the male looked white European, he had white skin. But GMP have been. BBC News. Woman's body found at Dovestone Reservoir. The man on the moor had died from strychnine poisoning. I think we would all like to resolve it just for peace of mind. body found at dovestones Why there? The mystery man, who had been nicknamed Neil Dovestone by mortuary attendants, was found dead on 12 December 2015 on the Chew track leading from Dovestones Reservoir boating lake to Indians Head. "There might have been an association in his mind, good or bad, with the poster and his personal tragedy," Mr Nield added. The first established the cause of death. He then walked into Boots, the chemists, which is the shop next door. HOUSTON - Remains found in the Sam Houston National Forest earlier this month have been identified as a California woman who disappeared last year . The Chew Track, which runs between two reservoirs, is steep. At the coroner's inquest on 14 March 2017[12][10] police reported that Lytton had repeated visa problems while living in Pakistan. When he had suddenly left Toogood suspected he had gone to the United States but he had in fact relocated to Hassan Town, a neighborhood in Lahore, Pakistan. [11] According to the BBC, Lytton and Toogood met in 1968 when Lytton worked as a croupier in Mayfair. He was the friend who Lytton had asked to pick him up at the airport upon his return. Human skeletal remains found in Cecil County - wmar2news.com To go to that place to die. Why did he travel on that day? Single - Ealing Broadway to Central London, Return - London Terminals to Manchester Stations. Police will hold a press conference on Friday morning where they are expected to release more details on Mr Lytton and the investigation. Obviously, it does make our task more challenging. "However, it's plausible that he researched Oldham on the internet during his time in Pakistan - 2006 to 2015 - and found pictures corresponding with the image in the posters . They were all purchased at Marks and Spencer, almost certainly in the UK judging by the labels, and his shoes came from Swiss luxury brand Bally. 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.". From the entrance to The Clarence, it is easy to point to the place where the walk to the Chew Track begins, just as Robinson did for the visitor on that Friday afternoon. He was thought he could have been living in Pakistan, and that he was white, aged between 65 and 70, and possibly travelling alone from Pakistan to London.