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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. The following five men were convicted for their part in Johnstone's murder at Lancaster Castle in 1980.
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 water.
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Nov 3, 2019 · 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.
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. The long haired victim of the grisly gangland-type killing had been ...
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 involved, got him to confess to his part in the killing.
Aug 29, 2023 · Brian recalled: "At the time it horrified even the most hardened of police officers. 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 callously dumped in Eccleston Delph in the hope it would never be found were shocking beyond belief.
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.
