{"id":12334,"date":"2019-04-10T08:30:24","date_gmt":"2019-04-10T08:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/?p=12334"},"modified":"2019-04-10T08:30:24","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T08:30:24","slug":"experts-have-reconstructed-the-face-of-mystery-cirencester-skeleton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/experts-have-reconstructed-the-face-of-mystery-cirencester-skeleton\/","title":{"rendered":"Experts have reconstructed the face of mystery Cirencester skeleton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Detective now hope to identify a man discovered in a woodland have released facial reconstruction.<\/p>\n<p>The skeletal remains were discovered in a woodland off the A419 near Cirencester by workmen in May 2018. Gloucestershire police said the body had been undiscovered for a long time and there were no suspicious circumstances of his death.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/av\/embed\/p075z8qs\/47857523\" width=\"700\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It has been nearly a year since the discovery but the man&#8217;s identity still remains a mystery. The facial reconstruction hopes to bring new leads or an identification for the man.<\/p>\n<p>Det Ch Insp Richard Ocone said the body of the man was &#8220;pretty decomposed, and was in effect a skeleton&#8221; when it had finally been found.<\/p>\n<p>The man is said to have been in his early 30s but could be as old as 55; he would be between 5ft 5in and 5ft 8in tall, he is likely to be a white British national.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12335\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12335\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12335\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/106350414_skellyiterms.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/106350414_skellyiterms.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/106350414_skellyiterms-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/106350414_skellyiterms-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/106350414_skellyiterms-750x422.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12335\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">GLOUCESTERSHIRE POLICE<br \/>Items including a raincoat, sunglasses, trainers, a wind-up torch and a radio were found with the body<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Det Ch Insp Ocone said<\/strong>: &#8220;We&#8217;re potentially dealing with somebody who&#8217;s perhaps walking distances between locations, and having no ID or money or a wallet on them is part of their lifestyle.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a bit of a quandary at the moment, we just need to know who he is.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This man will be somebody&#8217;s son; he may well be somebody&#8217;s brother or uncle.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The body was clothed in a black\/dark grey Peter Storm raincoat, a grey\/blue short-sleeved shirt, a black gilet and blue trousers with a dark leather belt. Dark trainers with a white sole and a beige baseball cap were found nearby, DNA provided no make with the national DNA database or the missing person database.<\/p>\n<p>A small sony wireless FM radio, aviator sunglasses, a wind up torch and a karrimor rucksack were found and are distinctive items which could identify him. No mobile phone or identification were found. They believe the man was a isolated character. They also believe that he was travelling between Cirencester and Stroud.<\/p>\n<p>If you know of someone who matches the above description that you haven\u2019t seen for some time, or believe that you&#8217;ve previously driven past this man within the county please let Gloucestershire Police\u00a0know by calling 101 and quoting Operation Octave.<\/p>\n<p>Information about this man can also be submitted online\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gloucestershire.police.uk\/operations\/operation-octave\/\">here<\/a>\u00a0or via email at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:Op.Octave@gloucestershire.pnn.police.uk\">Op.Octave@gloucestershire.pnn.police.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Detective now hope to identify a man discovered in a woodland have released facial reconstruction. The skeletal remains were discovered in a woodland off the A419 near Cirencester by workmen in May 2018. Gloucestershire police said the body had been undiscovered for a long time and there were no suspicious circumstances of his death. \ufeff\ufeff\ufeff&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":12336,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1014,1011,1015,1013,113,1012,43],"class_list":["post-12334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk-news","tag-det-ch-insp-richard-ocone","tag-experts-have-reconstructed-the-face-of-mystery-cirencester-skeleton","tag-gloucestershire-police","tag-mystery-cirencester-skeleton","tag-police","tag-reconstructed-face","tag-uk-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12337,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12334\/revisions\/12337"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}