Police have identified the human remains found in a Sutton-in-Ashfield field as a man who has been missing for 56 years. Officers made a significant break-through after a public appeal for information prompted a grandson to come forward.
Officers were first called to the scene in Coxmoor Road after a member of the public came across bones on April 26 this year. The area was cordoned off, and a no fly-zone was enforced over the scene including drones, while officers carried out their inquiries.
Alfred Swinscoe went missing in early 1967, when his grandson Russell Lowbridge was only four years old, after drinking at the Pinxton Miners Arms in Derbyshire. Family members had been waiting 56 years for answers after Alfred, aged 54 at the time, went missing in mysterious and unusual circumstances.
