True crime: Lancashire’s Handless Corpse

When two amateur divers plunged into a water filled quarry near Chorley on a Sunday morning they were unaware of what they were about to uncover - or the consequences of the gruesome find. Jeff Ashcroft and Ian Reading found the mutilated body of a man weighed down by bricks on 14 October 1979. The murder investigation lead Lancashire police to an amazing journey as far afield as Australia.