Mr Lytton had bought a return train ticket and travelled from Ealing Broadway train station to Manchester Piccadilly via Euston on Friday, December 11. Caroline and Stephen said they believe someone out there knows what happened to their son. I think collectively as a department we decided that it would be nice to give him some kind of identity, Hales recalls. [9] The family changed their name to Lawton in 1969.[10]. In judging whether the man was from the UK or abroad, his choice of clothes may be significant. We are hoping now to have those sutures categorised and classified, as to their structure material., According to Alister Hart, professor of orthopaedic surgery at University College London and the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, different hospitals adopt different techniques, adopt different suture materials at different times.. The Indian's Head summit can be seen to the top right. When I spoke to him he just seemed like a normal person just looking at the local interest spots. After an often frustrating and complex police inquiry lasting some 13 months, the man initially given the name 'Neil Dovestone' by mortuary technicians was revealed as London-born, 67-year-old David Lytton, a retired London Underground tube driver. Former ITV Corrie star Brooke Vincent wows fans with new look, Michelle Keegan and Catherine Tyldesley also hyped their ex-colleague's new 'do, 'I get goosebumps' - Lisandro Martinez loves Manchester United chant for him. The cause of death was - for modern Britain - extremely unusual. Woman's body found at Dovestone Reservoir. There are screens showing images from about 600 separate cameras. Last month GMP officers appealed to the Pakistani surgical team who worked on the mans leg, sometime between 2001 and 2013, in a bid to finally identify him. In the case of the body on the moor, they have been liaising with DS John Coleman and his team. [7] The article reproduced personal information from Lytton's passport, showing a London birthplace and a birth date of 21 April 1948. The meticulous work exploring these enquiries was all the more impressive considering that the three officers involved continued to investigate multiple other serious incidents that happened in Oldham over the past year. Write CSS OR LESS and hit save. But this man had nothing. The Chew Track, which runs between two reservoirs, is steep. An empty thyroxine sodium medicine bottle, emblazoned with Arabic writing, was also found close to where he lay on a track above Dovestone reservoir. X-ray of a titanium rod and screw pinning a fractured femur (thigh bone)(SPL). Vesely-Shore explains quite a few of the bodies are of people who have taken their own lives. 'Body on the Moor' India's dying mother: Can the River Ganges be saved? [4] He was estimated to be between 65 and 75 years old and was almost 6 feet (1.8m) tall, with a thin build; he was balding with grey hair and brown eyes. His body was recovered by underwater search teams on February 24, 2014. A missing from home investigation was launched by detectives in Oldham which established Craig had confided in a friend to say he feared for his safety. Gene Rose, 66, of Gustafson . To try to answer some of those questions - and to find out anything they could - police officers have been examining his behaviour. Smartly dressed and lying prone close to the Indians Head Summit, he had nothing on him except three train tickets and 130 in cash. At an inquest in Heywood earlier today, , Senior Coroner for Oldham, Mr Simon Nelson confirmed that the true identity of the man found close to Dovestones Reservoir is David Lytton, 67, from London. He says when he first saw him the male looked white European, he had white skin. And there were the train tickets that have helped the police to piece together his final journey. The search went international when a post-mortem examination revealed that the man had a titanium plate in his leg which was only manufactured and fitted in Pakistan. 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His visa expired and he attempted to leave the country with a manipulated visa and got caught which resulted in him getting blacklisted. Detectives who have spent almost a year trying to identify the man found dead on a track above Dovestone reservoir, in Saddleworth. [8] (His change of name explained previous reports that no one named David Lytton had been born in London on 21 April 1948.) 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. But on such occasions, the police usually find it is just a case of matching the body with someone who is reported missing. [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. Mr Robinson told the M.E.N last month: Its become more of a mystery as time has gone on. We will never know. On the evening Craig disappeared, a signal from his mobile phone which has never been found was plotted moving north from Newton Heath, Manchester, towards Oldham town centre and then on to Dovestones, where arrived at 10.10pm. He returned to Marks and Spencer and this time he bought a sandwich. He said: David Lytton therefore has been identified as the deceased male found at the Dovestones Country Park. Coleman travelled south and met up with officers from the Metropolitan Police. Deputies said they found the body and the baby at about 9:30 p.m. Tuesday at The Avenue . 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. Treu-Dynamic supplied about 500 of them each year. Parents Carolyn and Stephen Wilcox have now issued a plea for information, three years to the day after he disappeared from his home in Greater Manchester. Staff monitor pictures from streets, pavements, parks, stairwells, car parks. Single - Ealing Broadway to Central London, Return - London Terminals to Manchester Stations. Martin points to a map on the wall at the place where the man was first seen on camera. 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.. 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. Craig was last seen on 6 January 2014 at the home of relatives on Norfolk Crescent in Failsworth. "I think this is a credible link - an image he always remembered.". Part 1 (Ealing Broadway to Euston) 2. Be brave and do the right thing.. His phone signal remained at the reservoir for 20 minutes before it headed back to the Newton Heath area. 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. 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. He said: Three years have passed since Craigs death and we will not give up. The body was found at the Saddleworth beauty spot on December 12, 2015. Despite the absence of a phone or wallet, the man did have some possessions on him. Imagine if your son, brother or friend had been murdered, you would want people to come forward with information to find those responsible. A full inquest date has been provisionally set for 14 March 2017 at Heywood Coroners Court. There are four aircraft wrecks within less than a mile of this spot, Valentine continues. Paddy Lacey was a pro footballer but his world fell apart when he received a ban from the sport for breaching anti-doping rules. The man's body was found at the Saddleworth reservoir in December 2015 - his identity has been unknown until now. There he led a secluded life but was in regular contact with neighbors whom he told he had converted to Islam in 1996, a statement police did not confirm. 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Mr Nield, who taught physics and maths and has researched the tragic case extensively, told the Manchester Evening News : "I grew up in Saddleworth and know the area well. Det Sgt Coleman added that enquiries were made with the UK passport office and images and further passenger details were obtained. 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. That is how, for now at least, the man on the moor became Neil Dovestones. Just the top of the mountain.. The 'AD Toolset' Bundle The AD Toolset has been described as a must-have collection of Active Directory management tools. 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.". The 1980s, the inquest heard, also corresponded with a tragedy in Mr Lytton's personal life. 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 . However, the line of enquiries to date seem to direct me over into that region., X-ray of a titanium rod and screw pinning a fractured femur (thigh bone) 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. The batch had been manufactured and distributed in Pakistan. Thirteen months after the discovery of a man's body on Saddleworth Moor and following a painstaking police investigation, the mystery surrounding his identity has been resolved. 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. In 2006 he sold his house. ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) The Gates Police Department is investigating after a Hertz employee found a body in the back of a rental car Thursday. The posters featured an image looking out over Greenfield and the Chew Valley. He had no links at all to the Saddleworth area, he confirmed. His body was discovered on the hillside the following day. PERRYVILLE, Md. At the UK Missing Persons Bureau at Sunningdale in Berkshire, Louise Vesely-Shore, clicks through picture after picture on her computer. We are trying to piece together his movements from when he went missing in January to when his body was recovered. Craig is described as being of slim build, around 5ft 10in tall and when he was last seen he wearing a grey hooded top and blue combat pants. His son asks questions about his dad. Further up, the car passes some ragged rocks jutting skyward. However insignificant you think it might be it could be the vital piece of information which may help our investigation.. 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. Why did he travel on that day? [15], Maureen Toogood was recovering from a stroke at the time of Lytton's identification[16] and died in 2020.[17]. BBC News. Why has he undertaken that journey? Coleman asks. 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. [13] Salim Aktar, Lytton's close friend for more than 30 years, did not know of Maureen Toogood's existence. His inquest will have to make an official decision about whether this was suicide but the police believe it was. A MURDER investigation has been launched after the body of a man was found earlier this year in Greenfield. 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. Fortunately he has some memories, but he should have many more.. The body of the man aged between 65 and 75 was found on a remote hillside on 11 December last year. 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. The passport was issued on 8 September 2006 and would expire on 8 September 2016. But he did not get a taxi. Until now he had been nicknamed Neil Dovestone by mortuary workers at Royal Oldham Hospital. A full inquest date has been provisionally set for 14 March 2017 at Heywood Coroners Court. The man they are calling Neil was the 42nd unidentified body found in the United Kingdom in 2015. He said a full inquest into Mr Lyttons death will be held at Rochdale Coroners Court on March 14 at 2pm. At Piccadilly, he ate sandwiches then travelled by train to Saddleworth. Something went wrong, please try again later. "There have been a few theories as to why Mr Lytton was there, but they all seem to have been disproved. You can download the FREE Examiner Apple App here , the FREE Examiner Android App here or you can view the paper as an e-edition on your Apple, Android or Kindle device by clicking here. The mystery of the man found dead at Dovestones reservoir has finally been solved more than 12 months on. We were excited. in Miami Gardens. 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. He purchased a single ticket to get into central London. Thinking back to December, he says, even when he realised there were not any possessions which showed who the man was, he still had a realistic expectation that we would identify the male within certainly a matter of days. In January, pictures of the dead man were circulated to GPs nationwide, while detectives from. It would have been a strange and convoluted way to get to central London. 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Why there? On this one, there was not a number but there was a name - Treu-Dynamic, a company based in Sialkot in Pakistan. He just thanked me and asked me again for the directions, which I repeated to him. An empty medicine bottle, emblazoned with Arabic writing, was also found nearby. As always you can unsubscribe at any time. Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right. Not only walkers but cyclists and climbers come here, and sailors on Dovestone Reservoir. He was just blank. His former partner gave a statement saying he was a shy and reserved man who likely to be alone. The drug, which is often used as a pesticide, is highly toxic, can causes convulsions and is used in rat poison. But it is also a place associated with a number of deaths over the years. Anyone with information is asked to call police on 0161 856 9283. As well as poring over the CCTV footage in London, they have also retraced his steps in Manchester. Hunters in this remote wooded area just off Mountain Hill Road near Route 7 in Perryville stumbled upon a makeshift encampment, but nothing could have prepared them for what they found next. So I spoke to everyone else and they said yeah, well call him Neil.. When they found his train tickets, police officers hoped the answers to his identity could be found in west London. Former ITV Corrie star Brooke Vincent wows fans with new look, Michelle Keegan and Catherine Tyldesley also hyped their ex-colleague's new 'do, 'I get goosebumps' - Lisandro Martinez loves Manchester United chant for him. 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. 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. It was then that he was finally seen talking to someone. 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. It was about 10.50am on Saturday 12 December when the body was found by a cyclist. He will never now be with his son at Christmas, birthdays, holidays and special days in his sons life. 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. To go to that place to die. What started as a body on a hillside in the Peak District has become a multi-national investigation. No wallet, no keys. Marks and Spencer at Manchester Piccadilly. The medicine container the man had with him was made out of clear plastic, with a white lid and in a small blue cardboard box. Why strychnine? Did the man fly into the UK before making his final journey to the moor? It is a mile walk between South Ealing and Ealing Broadway. Lytton and Toogood became a couple and conceived a child but Toogood had a miscarriage which Lytton did not take well. The dad disappeared after telling a friend people were "after him", Yorkshire breaking news and updates sent straight to your inbox. The rock is also very unstable and rockfalls are possible at any time. Before the strychnine, it had originally contained thyroxine sodium - a drug used by people with an underactive thyroid. Craig had plans for the rest of his life, plans that included his six-year-old son. As always you can unsubscribe at any time. He didnt stay in there too long, Chapman explains, He more or less walked in and walked out. The body of Londoner David Lytton, 67, was found lying on a remote track in Saddleworth in 2015 - but what was he doing there? Weve been lucky enough to find a couple of fragments of sutures [or stitches] from the deep tissue of the left leg. He was lying on his back, 700 metres down from Chew reservoir, at a place where the track widens to allow. Body Found at Dovestones Reservoir: A Case Study. Speaking during todays hearing, coroner Simon Nelson said: I am most grateful for the assistance provided by the many agencies who have been involved together with the highly professional investigative strategy employed by Det Sgt John Coleman on behalf of GMP. Now a retired teacher and tutor from Cheshire reckons he has solved the puzzle - and it's all to do with a 1980s advertising campaign. These particular plates have been used by just 12 hospitals, all in Pakistan. Why poison? The member of staff could not remember talking to him. Get the latest updates from across Greater Manchester direct to your inbox with the free MEN newsletter, You can sign up very simply by following the instructions here. Daly City police and fire departments . Rebecca Hales and Julie Berry are pathology technicians there. You go and visit South Ealing train station, thinking hes come through off the Piccadilly Line, and theres no CCTV in working order on that day. We were thinking bingo, were going to get some information here, Chapman says. He was the friend who Lytton had asked to pick him up at the airport upon his return. A missing from home investigation was launched until Craigs body was sadly discovered on 24 February 2014. [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. Thats one of those questions that at this stage we cant answer, Coleman says. He started at 09:04 on Friday 11 December at Ealing Broadway Station in west London. Tube clue to Dovestone mystery body. When he returned to London on 10 December 2015 he was received by a friend at the airport and who told the police Lytton planned to spend some time travelling around. It is very unusual for them to have a body without a name. As each day passes, some might find it tempting to conclude that the man also made a deliberate decision that he did not want anyone to know his identity. "The poster, probably one of several in the Underground, was part of an advertising campaign to attract new business to the town in the 1980s. Craig was very close to his Mum, Carolyn and used to talk her all the time. Lytton's brother Jeremy Lawton reported he hadn't spoken to his brother for more than ten years but believed he was living in the United States because he had received several letters from him that had been posted in the U.S. Lytton's long-time friend Salim Aktar told that they had travelled to Pakistan together three times. It is very popular, especially on a bright summers day. Detectives investigating his death have now discovered Craig had confided in a friend to say he feared for his safety and officers have launched a murder investigation. Coleman says, no matter what happens, the effort has been worth it. Coleman says it is not unheard of to find no forms of ID on a body. It had been suggested the unidentified man . There was writing in both English and Urdu. A post mortem was carried out, but the result was inconclusive. He believes it's the only credible link between him and the area. In the 1980s, he would visit London and recalls seeing huge posters advertising Oldham as a place to work on display on walls and in lifts across the London Underground network. He said that enquiries to identify the man were at an end. One theory, still not completely ruled out, is that the mans death was somehow connected with that. He held different jobs later on and his last employment in London was as a train driver for London Underground. A provisional cause of death has been determined as strychnine poisoning.