The family can now hold a funeral but are desperate to know why he was killed
The daughter of the late miner and grandfather Alfred Swinscoe - who went missing more than 50 years ago and was found buried in a field decades later - says she 'doesn’t want to go to her grave' never knowing what happened to her 'loving and hard-working dad'. The family have made a public appeal for information into the circumstances surrounding the death of Mr Swinscoe, who went drinking at the Pinxton Miners Arms in Derbyshire in early 1967 and mysteriously went missing.
Extensive DNA work carried out on the human remains ruled out all three of the force’s ‘no body’ murders and the person remained unidentified. Russell Lowbridge was four years old when his grandfather went missing and contacted police following a media appeal for information. “We never expected that the remains found in Sutton would be him. I practically went hysterical. I said: ‘he can’t have lay in that field for 56 years and no one could find him until now'. It’s just so horrible. I would like to think I could die knowing the truth. I am 82 now and I could go myself at any time.”
Mr Lowbridge, 60, who now works for St John Ambulance, said: “I was the closest nephew to Gary as he passed on his love of pigeon racing to me in the 1970s and 80s “It completely broke him, never knowing what happened to his dad. I want justice for Gary because he tried so hard to get answers It tormented him up until the day he died.
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