Age: 16
Sex: male
Date: 10 Aug 1956
Place: Bolton-le-Sands, Morcambe Bay, Lancashire
The body of a naked youth was found by a fisherman on a sandbank near Middleton in Morcambe Bay at the mouth of the River Lune on 10 August 1956.
The fisherman, who had lived in Middleton Road in Overton, said that he found the youth's body between 9am and 9.30am on 10 August 1956 whilst he was out fishing in the Lune near the estuary with his son. He had waited for three hours for the tide after which they had brought the youth's body back to Bazil Point. He said that the youth's body was lying on a sandbank near a channel bottom about a mile west of Sunderland Point lighthouse and that he was naked and that there was no clothing about.
see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
see Lancashire Evening Post - Wednesday 12 September 1956, p5
see Morecambe Guardian - Friday 14 September 1956, p1
see Morecambe Guardian - Friday 17 August 1956
see Unsolved 1956