Detectives say human remains found in a farmer’s field are of a miner who was murdered after vanishing from his local pub over 50 years ago.
Alfred Swinscoe, 54, disappeared from the Pinxton Miners Arms in the pit village of Pinxton, Derbys, in 1967 after going outside to use a toilet.
His two sons and a friend, who he had been drinking with, raised the alarm when the dad-of-six failed to return to the bar.