Police investigating a suspected murder found a shoe and a distinctive sock at the scene near where human remains were found at a field in Sutton-in-Ashfield. The pair of socks - one of which was patterned - and a man's shoe were found by detectives at farmland off Coxmoor Lane.
The discovery of the human remains triggered a large-scale police murder investigation north of the county, that was officially declared and launched on Wednesday (May 24), nearly a month after the remains were found at the site on April 26. And in a press conference held at Nottinghamshire Police's Sherwood Lodge headquarters Assistant Chief Constable Rob Griffin issued a public appeal for information, with the force releasing a picture of the shoe and asking for the public's help with identifying who the items of clothing may belong to.
“One of his socks has got a pattern on it, which runs on the side and the other sock is plain black," he said. ACC Griffin said in an earlier statement: “Today we appeal for the public to come forward.
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"Any information you may have about who this person might be or anything you may have heard then we would ask you to get in touch. This murder may have happened some time ago, but times have changed and so have loyalties.
"We have set up a dedicated phone line and online portal direct to the incident room for anyone with information to contact us; or you can call Crimestoppers which is completely anonymous."
A construction worker found the bones and, since then, police have been working alongside a team of scientists in a bid to determine who the person was and how they died, with a large cordon remaining in place for more than three weeks.
Police are treating the death as murder due to the injuries that were sustained, including trauma to parts of the male skeleton. Assistant Chief Constable Rob Griffin said they also believe the victim was buried at the site so no-one could find him.
Police have since ruled out that the remains were those of missing James Brodie, the man suspected of shooting dead Marian Bates during a robbery at her jewellery shop in Arnold in 2003, and Bogdan Nawrocki, who was murdered in 2014 by fellow Polish immigrant Robert Marcinkiewicz-Szurkowski but whose body has not been found since he went missing from his Radford home.
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