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Bid to solve 50-year-old murder mystery

Could the victim be from the Isle of Man?

​An investigator who's spent four years trying to solve a 50 year old murder mystery has been on the Isle of Man to explore the possibility that the victim, who has never been identified, could be from the Island.

Ken Davies is investigating the discovery of a man's body in 1971 near Burton Upon Trent.

The victim is thought to have died in 1969 or early 1970 but the crime has remained unsolved.

The man is still unidentified, unnamed and unclaimed. 

Mr Davies now believes there could be a link to Manxman John Gick, a former Steam Packet clerk and Scout leader from Douglas, who disappeared on a trip to Liverpool in 1969:

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