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Liverpool Echo
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Ellen Kirwin & Lyell Tweed

Family have no answers after man found dead 5 years after he went missing

The death of a loving dad who was missing for more than five years remains a mystery.

James Hodgkiss was last seen by his girlfriend, in the early hours of August 3, 2016. The body of the dad-of-two was found nearly six years later, on January 24, 2022.

He was found in a peat bog, on Red Moss nature reserve, Horwich, but how he came to be there still remains unknown. Yesterday, June 21, at an inquest into the 34-year-old's death, coroner professor Alan Walsh recorded an open conclusion.

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