A FAMILY has been left devastated after a body was found in the search for a missing teen, who vanished five months ago. 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. Incident Log 936: Man found deceased, approximate age 65 to 75, Location: Beauty spot, Chew Track from Dovestone Reservoir. Write CSS OR LESS and hit save. We will never know. Mr Nield said Mr Lytton was working at the time as a Tube driver and probably saw the posters everyday of his life. 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. Walking with what he describes as a swagger, with his hands in his pockets, it is definitely the man. Why there? "Nobody has been able to find any connection at all between David Lytton and north west England, let alone Saddleworth and Chew Valley. Valentine looks out towards a place called Wilderness Gully. [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. BBC News. If your father, son, brother or friend had died in these circumstances you would want anyone who had information to come forward and speak to the police. "There have been a few theories as to why Mr Lytton was there, but they all seem to have been disproved. The area is by Saddleworth Moor, part of the Peak District National Park. It is a mile walk between South Ealing and Ealing Broadway. Mr Nield used Google Maps to recreate the scene depicted on the posters. But it is also a place associated with a number of deaths over the years. He believes it's the only credible link between him and the area. For whatever reason, the man travelled nearly 200 miles across England to be there. At the coroner's inquest on 14 March 2017[12][10] police reported that Lytton had repeated visa problems while living in Pakistan. Following these enquiries, police are now treating Craigs death as suspicious and a murder investigation has been launched. 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. I think we would all like to resolve it just for peace of mind. He just thanked me and asked me again for the directions, which I repeated to him. His next stop was WHSmith, the stationers. Six months on, he says, in his experience, the case is unique - Ive never come across a similar set of circumstances. Detective Constable Nichola Chapman spent around three and a half days studying what was caught on camera at Manchester Piccadilly train station, trying to find out as much as we could about him, to see if he had spoken to anybody or used a credit card. Deputies said they found the body and the baby at about 9:30 p.m. Tuesday at The Avenue . He left at about 7pm and did not say where he was going and a few days later when he did not return home his parents contacted the police and reported him missing. This male appeared to have no return travel arrangements., On Tuesday December 6, 2016, I received the name of David Lytton who was identified as the male matching the profile.. A provisional cause of death has been determined as strychnine poisoning. The drug, which is often used as a pesticide, is highly toxic, can causes convulsions and is used in rat poison. READ MORE Save E-mail . Mr Lyttons body was found on Saturday 12 December 2015 on the Chew track leading from Dovestones Reservoir boating lake to Indians Head. Greater Manchester Police confirmed his identity using DNA matching, characterising him as "a bit of a loner" who "liked his own company". 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. Martin points to a map on the wall at the place where the man was first seen on camera. PERRYVILLE, Md. 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It is that plate and the injury to the leg that could prove to be the biggest clue to the identity of the man on the moor. Craig was very close to his Mum, Carolyn and used to talk her all the time. He spent a bit longer there but, again, did not seem to spend any money. "It was an ad campaign to try and get businesses into Oldham and the surrounding area. Why has he undertaken that journey? Coleman asks. "Oldham was written in large letters underneath. Want to read, watch and hear more? Coleman has been a police officer for about 20 years. About 60% of unidentified cases are resolved in the year that they are found but that leaves many which are not. Thats one of those questions that at this stage we cant answer, Coleman says. Why strychnine? [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. So I spoke to everyone else and they said yeah, well call him Neil.. He doesn't know who ran the advertising campaign. The 'AD Toolset' Bundle The AD Toolset has been described as a must-have collection of Active Directory management tools. [9] His parents were also identified as Sylvia and Hyman Lautenberg. An empty medicine bottle, emblazoned with Arabic writing, was also found nearby. That is how, for now at least, the man on the moor became Neil Dovestones. Our products are used by thousands of organizations, both small and large from Education to Enterprise. The Chew Track, which runs between two reservoirs, is steep. 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.. [6], On 31 January 2017 The Times reported that Lytton had lived in Streatham, south London, from the 1980s, until he moved to Pakistan in 2006. To go to that place to die. We are trying to piece together his movements from when he went missing in January to when his body was recovered. It confirmed that officers had checked passenger records from a flight from Lahore in Pakistan which tallied with Mr Lytton's details. The mystery of the man found at Dovestone reservoir has finally been solved, an inquest has heard. Away from the world of fiction, it was the poison of choice of mole-catchers, until it was banned across the European Union in 2006. It also found he had no life-threatening illness. 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. A post mortem examination was carried out but the result was inconclusive. Craigs dad says he and his wife have been left devastated at the death of their son, who they say was looking forward to the future. You have entered an incorrect email address! 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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The man found dead near the site of a 1949 air crash near Dovestone Reservoir is NOT a childhood survivor of the disaster, police have revealed. Photo courtesy of Clinton police. However insignificant you think it might be it could be the vital piece of information which may help our investigation.. Boots on the concourse at Manchester Piccadilly, He didnt have an expression, Chapman says. The family of Mr Lytton had been informed and officers were able to compare DNA from the mystery body with that of a relative to confirm a match. Date published: 18 April 2018 Print. 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. 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. The Indian's Head summit can be seen to the top right. "In the 1980s I occasionally visited London for a few days and remember seeing to my astonishment, in a lift on the Underground, a large poster-advert showing a view across Greenfield towards Chew valley in the distance. Officers broadened their search to Pakistan with police appealing to surgical staff there to offer help as Mr Lytton had undergone an unusual surgical procedure involving a device only used in a handful of hospitals in that country. He was a fantastic father and he had lots of patience and time with his son. To me, he looked like a Neil. For a while, there was speculation that the man could have been one of them, coming back to the area where the crash happened. Updated: Mar 3, 2023 / 07:33 AM EST. But Greater . He was the friend who Lytton had asked to pick him up at the airport upon his return. The man they are calling Neil was the 42nd unidentified body found in the United Kingdom in 2015. "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. My theory on why he was there keeps changing. In a statement, coroner Simon Nelson read out a statement from Det Sgt John Coleman of GMP, who had been investigating the case. Freddy Perham, 17, was described as a "wonderful boy" by his lov It appeared to me that the male had sat down and had taken the conscious decision to lie backwards.. He was seen alive shortly after sunset (3:59pm), by two Royal Society for the Protection of Birds staff, near the site at which his body was found the following day. There was writing in both English and Urdu. One of the Mountain Rescue volunteers wondered whether he had suffered a heart attack while coming back down the hill. Something went wrong, please try again later. There was international intrigue, and international investigations. 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. This area is no stranger to tragedy, observes Valentine. As a family, we are asking if anyone can help us find the answers we are looking for.. Its so strange. At an inquest in Heywood earlier today, Thursday 26 January 2017, 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. Young woman missing for more than a year may have been 'killed by man who knew her family', "We want to keep Alisha in peoples memories", Channel 4 Grand Designs star 'reinvents' the toilet so you can hide it in your wardrobe, The toilet can not only help vulnerable people, it can save you space in your bathroom. [10] Jeremy Lawton described that his brother meticulously "compartmentalised" his life in a way that his friends and family would not interact. People of all shapes, sizes and ages are walking over a pedestrian crossing into Ealing Broadway station. It was discovered he boarded a train to Manchester Piccadilly railway station via London Euston on Friday, December 11 - just two days after he flew into Heathrow from Lahore, Pakistan, where he had been living for 10 years. The people of Manchester make this city what it is", 'Is that you?' HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- The body of a man was found in a wooded area near Memorial Park on Friday morning, according to Houston police. He was positive about the future for the first time in a long time. 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. Marks and Spencer at Manchester Piccadilly. 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? Were thinking GP surgeries, dentists, you get your hair cut, bookmakers, residential homes, health services - all these places we visited.. (SPL). He returned to Lahore after four days, on 31 March 2007. He didnt stay in there too long, Chapman explains, He more or less walked in and walked out. His phone signal remained at the reservoir for 20 minutes before it headed back to the Newton Heath area. I told him theres not enough daylight for him to get there and back today. His brother described him as highly intelligent, but a loner who preferred his own company. When I spoke to him he just seemed like a normal person just looking at the local interest spots. 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. A 52-year-old Tampa man has been arrested in the death of a person whose body was found in an apartment with a baby Tuesday, according to the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office. One theory, still not completely ruled out, is that the mans death was somehow connected with that. The body of a baby has been found in a woodland area in southern England, close to where aristocrat Constance Marten and her partner Mark Gordon were arrested earlier this week over concerns for . It is very popular, especially on a bright summers day. 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 didnt have the appearance of a gentleman from the Indian subcontinent. Why did he travel on that day? The man later identified as Lytton died from a lethal dose of strychnine, and is believed by police to have died by suicide. It is known as Indians Head. These are the unidentified people from over the years. It would have been a strange and convoluted way to get to central London. We build popular software for managing Microsoft's Active Directory. He was carrying no identification but had three train tickets and 130 in cash. Its not nice to call somebody an unknown person, Berry says. 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. He was just blank. The batch had been manufactured and distributed in Pakistan. You think that youll be able to track him back on CCTV into South Ealing and theres no CCTV. 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.. And he just set off.. Released on Radio 4 15 March 2017. But then again the return would only have been 1 more expensive than buying a single. Others are stamped with the name of the manufacturer. His inquest will have to make an official decision about whether this was suicide but the police believe it was. We use your sign-up to provide content in the ways you've consented to and improve our understanding of you. We are reminded of Craig every single day. It was the position of the body which somehow seemed strange. Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right. In a news release, the Hillsborough Sheriff's Office said an unharmed infant also was in the apartment. An empty thyroxine sodium medicine bottle, emblazoned with Arabic writing, was also found close to where he lay on a track above Dovestone reservoir. The 1980s, the inquest heard, also corresponded with a tragedy in Mr Lytton's personal life. 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. Shock as sonic boom heard across parts of England today, A plane breaking the sound barrier was the most likely cause of the noise, Emotional scenes at Etihad as Man City fans and Phil Foden pay tribute to tragic Milly-Rose, 6, who died suddenly, The emotional display happened during the sixth minute of Manchester City vs Newcastle, The Mancunians who deserve our thanks: Celebrating unsung heroes changing the city for the better, The contribution made to the city by our residents cannot be underestimated. "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 . We miss him, they said. There was 130 in 10 notes. Detective Sergeant John Coleman, who has been leading the investigation on behalf of the coroner, said: This has been an investigation unlike anything I have ever known in the 20 years I have been a police officer and one that was truly a team effort. We use your sign-up to provide content in the ways you've consented to and improve our understanding of you. 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. But on such occasions, the police usually find it is just a case of matching the body with someone who is reported missing. Not this time. More often than not, people are carrying something from which they can be identified - a mobile phone, credit cards, a travel card. The man on the moor had died from strychnine poisoning. He had no links at all to the Saddleworth area, he confirmed. 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. [9] Sylvia Lautenberg's family was of Jewish descent, had emigrated from Poland to England in about 1901, and had lived in or near East London. 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. Detectives who have spent almost a year trying to identify the man found dead on a track above Dovestone reservoir, in Saddleworth. Some count the area where the body was discovered as being part of Saddleworth Moor. He just asked for directions to the top of the mountain, says Melvin Robinson. In judging whether the man was from the UK or abroad, his choice of clothes may be significant. 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. Part 2 (Euston to Manchester Picadilly) 3. News. 'Hold my hands up' - Graeme Souness admits he got it wrong about Manchester United star Lisandro Martinez, The Argentinian was picked apart following defeat at Brentford but has since been a revelation in red, How well do you really know Greater Manchester? A body was found in a container in the desert in Cave Creek, Arizona, on Sept. 17, 2022. He then walked into Boots, the chemists, which is the shop next door. The first established the cause of death. [9] The family changed their name to Lawton in 1969.[10]. He then contacted Greater Manchester Police to confirm he was still alive. Craig, who had a six-year-old son at the time of his disappearance on January 6, 2014, had told a friend that people were after him.. On 12 December 2015 a man's body was found lying on the ground on Saddleworth Moor. His parents reported him missing a few days later when he failed to return home. And there were the train tickets that have helped the police to piece together his final journey. She said he had lived in a flat in London which was 'devoid of furniture', as he preferred to eat out at cafs and food markets, and slept on a foam mat. Something went wrong, please try again later. 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. ", "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. A MURDER investigation has been launched after the body of a man was found earlier this year in Greenfield.
