A senior police officer has pledged that the force will approach the suspected murder of Alfred Swinscoe "as if it were a crime that happened today". It comes as the identity of human remains discovered in a field in Sutton-in-Ashfield was confirmed following a media appeal.
Russell Lowbridge was only four years old when his grandfather, Alfred Swinscoe, went missing in early 1967 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.
Mr Lowbridge, aged 60, contacted police following a media appeal for information about the unidentified remains found in Coxmoor Road on Wednesday, April 26 DNA tests were carried out on Russell and Alfred’s son, now in his 70s, and matched against the bones exhumed from the ground.
