Specialist teams still working at cordon after remains of human skeleton found

A number of officers are still working at a cordon in Festival Park in Etruria, Stoke-on-Trent today (Tuesday 4 March) after the remains of a human skeleton were discovered.

We’ve been there since we were called at 3.40pm on Sunday (2 March) when someone came across the skeleton in the area.

Detectives and forensic teams, including an anthropologist, a botanist and an archaeologist, have been carrying out a thorough inspection of the scene since the cordon was put in place.

We expect the scene to stay in place at least until tomorrow (Wednesday 5 March).

Our investigation is ongoing and we’re working hard to progress a number of enquiries to help us identify the remains and how they ended up there.

We are currently treating this as an unexplained death.

Anyone with any information that can help with our investigation is asked to get in touch by calling 101, or using Live Chat on our website, quoting incident number 397 of 2 March.

You can also call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.