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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.
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 body was dumped at the quarry off Halfpenny Lane, Eccleston Former beauty queen Julie Hue and her friend Barbara Pilkington walked into Leyland police station in the early hours of one...
Oct 8, 2009 · His body was then dumped in the flooded Eccleston Delph Quarry, weighed down with weights and a car jack. 'Pulled together' Meadows arrested Smith and, although he initially denied being...
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.
The fall of Mr Asia. by David Lomas. Twenty-five years ago, the Mr Asia drug ring came to a bloody end, with the discovery of Aucklander Marty Johnstone's handless, mutilated body in an English quarry. DAVID LOMAS, who has followed the case from the start, revisits New Zealand's most famous crime gang. A mass killer with a glamorous lawyer lover.
Martin Johnstone went missing and later his mutilated body was found in Eccleston Delph in Lancashire. This dramatisation made for Granada's Crime Story series takes a heavily fictionalised approach. It is not even a very good one. It was made as some kind of bizarre love story.
