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. 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. A missing from home investigation was launched until Craigs body was sadly discovered on 24 February 2014. At the time, Greater Manchester Police issued an appeal for information which included CCTV images of the man at a London tube station before footage of him at Manchester Piccadilly was released. Mr Nield said Mr Lytton was working at the time as a Tube driver and probably saw the posters everyday of his life. Two floors below ground level at the town hall in Ealing, you find the councils CCTV control room. There - we got him, he says, as the clock in the corner of the screen shows 09:03. Part 4 (Greenfield to Wimberry Stones) 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 . His arms were across his chest.. An international police investigation was launched in a bid to identify the body, nicknamed Neil Dovestones by mortuary workers at Royal Oldham Hospital. [7] The article reproduced personal information from Lytton's passport, showing a London birthplace and a birth date of 21 April 1948. With him, police found three train tickets, 130 in cash, all. He walked in at about 14:00 on the day before his body was found. But this man had nothing. The dead body . But mystery still surrounds what a man with no obvious connections to the Oldham or Saddleworth areas was doing on Saddleworth Moor. He held different jobs later on and his last employment in London was as a train driver for London Underground. (SPL). But then again the return would only have been 1 more expensive than buying a single. The tragic case went on to baffle detectives for many months. 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. The Indian's Head summit can be seen to the top right. 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There wasnt any worry on his face, there wasnt any confusion, there wasnt any elation.. His head was uphill and his legs were straight downhill - perfectly straight. The passport was issued on 8 September 2006 and would expire on 8 September 2016. The following November he left again, but there was no record of his returning. 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. Vesely-Shore explains quite a few of the bodies are of people who have taken their own lives. 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. He didnt stay in there too long, Chapman explains, He more or less walked in and walked out. READ MORE Save E-mail . That is how, for now at least, the man on the moor became Neil Dovestones. The people of Manchester make this city what it is", 'Is that you?' We were excited. As well as poring over the CCTV footage in London, they have also retraced his steps in Manchester. 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 points out where a British European Airways DC-3 came down in 1949. India's dying mother: Can the River Ganges be saved? Main News; Community News; Letters To The Editor; Latest Issue; . The batch had been manufactured and distributed in Pakistan. It would have been a strange and convoluted way to get to central London. 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. He will never now be with his son at Christmas, birthdays, holidays and special days in his sons life. He was on a small patch of grass, beneath what is known as Robs Rocks. Our products are used by thousands of organizations, both small and large from Education to Enterprise. He spoke about taking his son on holiday and teaching him to swim and ride a bike. Staff monitor pictures from streets, pavements, parks, stairwells, car parks. 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. You have entered an incorrect email address! Not this time. In a statement, coroner Simon Nelson read out a statement from Det Sgt John Coleman of GMP, who had been investigating the case. He was a fantastic father and he had lots of patience and time with his son. According to police, the car was towed from the city of Rochester to the Ajax Road location near the airport by a subcontractor with Hertz. 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. Coleman has been a police officer for about 20 years. The body of the man aged between 65 and 75 was found on a remote hillside on 11 December last year. It appeared to me that the male had sat down and had taken the conscious decision to lie backwards.. We are trying to piece together his movements from when he went missing in January to when his body was recovered. The drug, which is often used as a pesticide, is highly toxic, can causes convulsions and is used in rat poison. The first established the cause of death. 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. Is it because he was a national or a visitor to Pakistan at the time of the operation? asks Coleman. We are totally devastated Craig has died, we will never forgot him and will keep his memory alive for his son Little Craig.. 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.. '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? In February, police were called to Dovestone Reservoir following reports that a body had been seen. We have carried out a number of enquiries and as a result are now treating his death as suspicious. [13] Salim Aktar, Lytton's close friend for more than 30 years, did not know of Maureen Toogood's existence. Get news and views from across Saddleworth straight to your inbox every week. Police contacted the thyroxine manufacturers, GlaxoSmithKline. Some count the area where the body was discovered as being part of Saddleworth Moor. "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. [1][2] The placeholder name was reportedly devised by mortuary attendants at Royal Oldham Hospital,[3] with reference to the location the body was found near Dovestone Reservoir, on an asphalt track in the Chew Valley. A full inquest date has been provisionally set for 14 March 2017 at Heywood Coroners Court. 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. 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. 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. As always you can unsubscribe at any time. Nobody can alter what happened but it would be good if we could at least get some answers and find out what happened.. 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.. Just the top of the mountain.. 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. document.getElementById( "ak_js" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); If you would like to contribute to About Manchester, contact us here. 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. We build popular software for managing Microsoft's Active Directory. He was identified from photographs from a passenger list and images from CCTV in London. [15], Maureen Toogood was recovering from a stroke at the time of Lytton's identification[16] and died in 2020.[17]. The body of 28 year-old Craig Wilcox was discovered in the Dovestones Reservoir late last month. One theory, still not completely ruled out, is that the mans death was somehow connected with that. 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 Missing Persons Bureau works with individual police forces to help find out who some of these people are. Witnesses saw him at two points on the mountain . Police, who worked tirelessly to identify Mr Lytton, had previously been given just a handful of clues to help them. Part 3 (Manchester Picadilly to Greenfield) 4. Who was the man, why was he at the Indian's Head summit and how did he die? The 28-year-olds body was discovered in Dovestones Reservoir on Saddleworth Moor in February 2014, with detectives suspecting he was abducted and murdered. He doesn't know who ran the advertising campaign. It also found he had no life-threatening illness. 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. The body of a 66-year-old Clinton man was found Tuesday in a vehicle discovered upside down in water off the Hill Road in Clinton. Greaeter Manchester Police have now issued a short statement, and have confirmed Mr Lytton was 67 years old and from London. 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. ", "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. She retraced his steps off the platform, turning right, across the station concourse, to a slot machine and gambling shop. 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. "There have been a few theories as to why Mr Lytton was there, but they all seem to have been disproved. Read about our approach to external linking. The body was found at the Saddleworth beauty spot on December 12, 2015. "The trees in the foreground have grown since the poster was made.". Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right. Six months have now passed since the man on the moor lay down by the path and died, and still no-one has even the vaguest notion of who he is. [4], Wimberry Stones is a rock feature known locally as "Indian's Head" overlooking the reservoir. Something went wrong, please try again later. Be brave and do the right thing.. Peak District National Park Ranger Andy Valentine was brought up close by and now often takes his 4x4 past the spot where the man walked on that day back in December. He then boarded a train to Saddleworth and visited The Clarence pub, where he asked the landlord for directions. 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. BBC News. 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. His body was discovered by a walker at 10.45am the next day lying face upwards with his head pointing towards the summit, his legs together and arms by his side. His phone signal remained at the reservoir for 20 minutes before it headed back to the Newton Heath area. It confirmed that officers had checked passenger records from a flight from Lahore in Pakistan which tallied with Mr Lytton's details. He was the friend who Lytton had asked to pick him up at the airport upon his return. A FAMILY has been left devastated after a body was found in the search for a missing teen, who vanished five months ago. Craig was last seen on 6 January 2014 at the home of relatives on Norfolk Crescent in Failsworth. The last of the questions above was answered first. A post-mortem examination had revealed. Something went wrong, please try again later. 'Body on the Moor' 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. He just asked for directions to the top of the mountain, says Melvin Robinson. These are the unidentified people from over the years. 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. 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) He had a great sense of humour and I cant say anything bad about him. He planned to get some money together to get his driving licence and then a driving job. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. His next stop was WHSmith, the stationers. Dovestones by DAEMONOLOGIE, released 04 February 2021 1. One of the Mountain Rescue volunteers wondered whether he had suffered a heart attack while coming back down the hill. 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. 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. Until now he had been nicknamed Neil Dovestone by mortuary workers at Royal Oldham Hospital. The last person the man is known to have spoken to was the landlord of The Clarence pub in the village of Greenfield, where many walkers set off from. His visa expired and he attempted to leave the country with a manipulated visa and got caught which resulted in him getting blacklisted. 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. Altogether, on his walk to the station, he was seen on eight cameras.