Police have said that human remains which were found in a field are from a man who has been missing for 56 years. The remains of a man found buried in a field are those of a miner and father-of-six who went missing in the late 1960s, police have confirmed.
Alfred Swinscoe, who was 54, went missing in 1967 and was last seen outside a pub in Pinxton, Derbyshire. His body was found in a field in nearby Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, on April 26 this year and his identity was confirmed through DNA tests carried out after family members responded to a police appeal.
Mr Swinscoe’s daughter, Julie, now aged 82, said on Thursday that she “doesn’t want to go to her grave” not knowing what happened to her “loving and hard-working dad”. She said: “I was 25 at the time, a factory worker and I remember coming home one day from work and people saying they couldn’t find dad. He had gone missing, and the police were searching.
