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- 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. Beneath the deep expanse, a little over 30 feet beneath the surface, is a sandstone ledge. It was on that ledge, that the two divers found the mutilated body of Marty Johnstone.
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Nov 3, 2019 · News. 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 · 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...
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...
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.
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
Oct 8, 2009 · A real-life Taggart says "team-work, hard slog and a touch of luck" helped solve one of Lancashire's biggest murder investigations. The discovery of Martin Johnstone's mutilated body in a...