{"id":703699,"date":"2026-07-21T17:05:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T17:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/703699\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T17:05:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T17:05:13","slug":"man-whose-remains-found-in-sudbury-river-was-unlawfully-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/703699\/","title":{"rendered":"Man whose remains found in Sudbury river was unlawfully killed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Det Supt Mike Brown from Suffolk Police told the inquest there were bags within bags, filled with shingle, rocks, some bricks and some soap products and air freshener products that became obsolete in 2011.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Asked by the coroner if he believed someone had wanted to ensure the bags remained sealed and did not smell, Det Supt Brown said &#8220;absolutely&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dive teams were also called to the scene where a second bag of bones was found slightly further down the river on 29 August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They included pieces from a person&#8217;s skull and were linked by DNA to the first bags.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Det Supt Brown said the victim had suffered a &#8220;violent and unnatural death&#8221; and no DNA matches had been found on national or international criminal databases or databases for missing people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The force believed there was a &#8220;criminal element&#8221; and that someone with &#8220;skills in butchery&#8221; had dismembered the body, he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Det Supt Mike Brown from Suffolk Police told the inquest there were bags within bags, filled with shingle,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":703700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-703699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=703699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/703700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}