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Nov 3, 2019 · It was a strange clue for Lancashire Constabulary officers to find as they arrived at Delph Quarry, one that simultaneously told them a lot about the individual who they had pulled from the cold water, while muddying the case in more confusion and mystery.
Oct 8, 2009 · The body was then dumped in Eccleston Delph quarry. Having told the police so much, the women they were then placed in police protection and the police set about bringing the culprits to justice....
Dec 3, 2023 · News. By. Rachel Smith Court reporter. Mr Asia on the left and Mr Big on the right. On a cold autumn morning in October 1979, two amateur sub-aqua enthusiasts met for a dive at Eccleston Delph Quarry. The 60ft deep pit, off Halfpenny Lane was, and still is, a popular spot for local divers.
Aug 29, 2023 · The cold-blooded shooting in a lay-by north of Lancaster, the brutal attempts to hide his identity by chopping off his hands and smashing his face with a hammer and the way his weighted body was...
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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...
Eccleston Delph, a flooded quarry in the heart of Lancashire, was never meant to reveal its gruesome secret. But the body of Martin Johnstone never hit the bottom. Instead it came to rest on a ledge after the perpetrators of the most notorious deed in the history of crime in the North West, had bundled him over the edge.
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.
