UK UK - Canterbury, WhtMale, 55-70, suitcase with theology book Feb'17

[cotswoldemmie]

Pastor's sister has confirmed on Kent Police FB page some time ago that it was not him. I think this is the link to comments https://www.facebook.com/kentpolice/posts/10158128002035161:0

Ah ok! Thank you for correcting me! [emoji846]


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[Mrs Marple]

No news.

I wonder if he was a victim of people trafficking. There is a large eastern European population in east Kent. Perhaps he was put into slavery to pay off his trafficking debt but was poorly treated and died.

The book etc l can't explain.

 

[eucalyptuz]

I'm sure the Kent police have looked into this, but the author of the book (Dr Frank Lake) was recorded to have had 3 children. I can find only find info on two. The eldest, David (b~1944-46 during Lake's time in Poona, India) and the youngest named Monica. David would be a 71-74 y.o. if still living and perhaps he had younger male sibling that I can't find records for. Maybe somebody with better access than me at ancestry.com can chase down further details.
Sticking these references here for for anybody that wants to dig deeper into the book's author:
http://www.affinity.org.uk/downloads/foundations/Foundations Archive/27_37.pdf
Frank Lake - Wikipedia
Dr Frank Lake, Founder of the Clinical Theology Association
The first link includes some interesting bibliographical details.

 

[Onfortuneswheel]

I wonder if he was possibly Romani? It would be odd though that he wasn't buried.

 

[Al Ka]

New article and appeal released with LOTs of extra information. Certain parts bolded by me for relevance
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Mystery of body found in field in Wincheap, Canterbury, three years ago

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As Gareth Morgan walked alongside a field on the outskirts of Canterbury, he spotted in the distance what looked like a pile of rubbish.
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Sensing a connection, he left for work early the next day to check out the scene off Hollow Lane in Wincheap. What he discovered on that fateful morning - three years ago this month - would set in motion a police investigation which remains unsolved to this day.

For in that field was the body of a man, lying on his back, naked to the waist with his arms folded across his torso.

Mr Morgan later told a coroner: “It was 50 metres into the field. “I got to it and realised it was the body of a white male. He had no top on and there were items surrounding him, including a book. I called 999.”
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Next to the body was a black suitcase, a book on clinical theology and a wedding catalogue addressed to a woman called Mandy Martin.

Police also discovered a mobile phone, glasses and an London Oyster Card, which was bought in Walthamstow but never used.
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“His fingerprints had no match and we couldn’t match any DNA samples.
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Police thought he could be from eastern Europe, so officers visited local sites popular with migrant workers and completed a search of DNA databases across the continent.

ADS Stamp said: “We carried out extensive house-to-house inquiries and talked to fruit pickers in the area but we found nothing.
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“We also went to two homeless centres in Canterbury and they couldn’t help. “We got numerous names but gradually they were ruled out. “We couldn’t do dental checks as he had no teeth.”

The man was thought to be in his mid-50s to late-60s, with a skinny build and standing just 5ft 5ins tall. A post-mortem investigation revealed he had died from heart disease.

The unsolved mystery of the body in the field

 

[Mrs Marple]

I wonder if he was homeless and had walked from somewhere else. Almost like a pilgrim. I wonder how far they pursued the Walthamstow connection.

 

[Al Ka]

I wonder if he was homeless and had walked from somewhere else. Almost like a pilgrim. I wonder how far they pursued the Walthamstow connection.

I am more curious about wedding catalogue belonging to Mandy Martin. So many questions...

 

[jslk]

Do people usually just lie down and die peacefully in repose?

 

[Laura Avery]

The link to his sister replying it's not him is broken, why did she rule it out? Dna?
The book is used by the bridgepastorlcare , they have conferences in Scotland more notably in Perth.
There is also a Mandy Martin in Perth (Tenious link I know not a massively popular name, all the people I have met in my 42 years, working in the public sector. I have met just one Martin although of course, it is a common name.
There where also glasses (as in spectacles) and a wine decanter found next to the body, would he have used that to give the blood of Christ?

 

[Melt71]

Surely there was an address in the wedding catalogue? Or a way t tell if it was British, US. Australian etc (currency, if listed, would vary). I’m thinking perhaps it was just from a local mailbox and didn’t turn up any leads?