Reported crime: dredged up9/15/2023 ![]() Please get in touch if you can help us to identify this person.07 December 2020 Journal Entry Last stop on the line. This will enable work to be done to confirm the identity (or otherwise) and allow them to arrange a proper family disposal and tribute as they see fit. Sussex Police via or call 101, quoting Sussex serial 1261 of 12/09. UK Missing Persons Bureau via or call 08 It is hoped that some family members may feel this comes from a loved one buried there, or perhaps from a missing person they have previously reported. The area in which it was found is a recognised lawful sea burial area so we think the skull could have come from a burial at sea. The case is regarded as unexplained but not suspicious. Sussex Police asked the Missing Persons Bureau for further help and they engaged forensic artist Anneli Pilsbury who has produced this impression based on an assessment of how the man would have appeared. ![]() They brought it into Shoreham when they landed the following day and local police officers took possession of it.įorensic examination has shown that it is the skull of a man, believed to be in the overall age range of 30-71 at the time of death, but most likely to have been 40-60.Įxtensive enquiries have been made, including checks with the National Crime Agency's UK Missing Persons Bureau and with the national DNA database, but no information has yet been obtained that would identify the man. On 12 September 2014 fishermen from Newhaven dredged up the skull while fishing off Newhaven. Police are hoping that an artist's impression of a man's skull found in the English Channel may help to identify it.
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