When a police constable near the end of his shift was called to investigate two suspicious holdalls that had been dumped in a Welsh layby alongside a busy road he had no idea what gruesome discovery he was about to make. Jeff Harris was 30 minutes from the end of his shift and thought he had been called to deal with some rubbish.
But when he went to lift the bags found at the side of the road in Rogerstone, near Newport, and took a look inside he realised it was something much more sinister. He had made the gruesome discovery of the butchered remains of a man later identified as 24-year-old backpacker Clive Tully. The police investigation that lead to his killer is the subject of the latest programme in the BBC series The Dark Land where a team of experts use modern policing techniques to examine a series of disturbing murders that have happened in Wales over the years.
Before his murder Clive had been in the UK as part of a two-year backpacking trip to learn about his family who were based in Newport. He had grown up in Auckland, New Zealand, after his father moved from south Wales to the country in the 1950s. He had visited with his family in Newport and worked as a builder before moving to Bristol to work with a construction company.
