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Nov 3, 2019 · News. By. Dominic Moffitt. The tale of a the handless corpse, featuring a New Zealand drug baron, heroin, and a Chinese medallion. In 1979, two amateur divers arrived at Eccleston Delph, a water filled quarry near Chorley. Keen to explore the murky depth, the duo ascended into the cold water.
Oct 8, 2009 · Maher and another man Jimmy Smith took the body back to a garage in Leyland where it was mutilated with an axe, hammer and spade. They chopped off his hands and extracted his teeth in the hope he...
Aug 29, 2023 · Known widely as ‘The Handless Corpse’ case, the investigation began in 1979 when two amateur divers at Eccleston Delph, a water filled quarry near Chorley, discovered a mangled body in the...
Oct 8, 2009 · The discovery of Martin Johnstone's mutilated body in a water-filled quarry in Eccleston in 1979 led the police to uncover an international drug ring. In the first of the series of Lancashire...
Nov 9, 2019 · 2019-11-09 - Lancs Live. ‘It was only when we got close, we found it was a body and had no hands, our stomachs turned.’. In October 1979, two amateur divers, Jeffrey Ashcroft and Ian Reading, arrived at Eccleston Delph, a water-filled quarry near Chorley, in the English county of Lancashire.
Johnstone was murdered by his longtime friend Andy Maher under the orders of Clark, and his handless body was dumped in Eccleston Delph, Lancashire, mutilated in a hasty but failed attempt to foil identification by the police. Maher not only cut off his hands, but battered Johnstone's face hoping to prevent dental identification.
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The naked, mutilated corpse of a stocky man thought to be under 30 was found by amateur scuba-divers at Marsden's Quarry, off Halfpenny Lane, Eccleston, near Chorley. The frogmen say both hands had been chopped off the body and there was a large gaping wound in the stomach
