Mystery of bludgeoned body from Sixties buried in garden

A MOTHER told of her shock after the dismembered body of a man murdered in the Sixties was discovered by workmen building a kitchen extension at her £1million house.

- Anthony France, John Dunne

Scotland Yard today released a 3D image of the smartly-dressed victim, who had been bludgeoned to death and dumped in a shallow grave just 1ft deep in Wimbledon. Builders found his remains in the rear garden of a four-bed Victorian terrace in Cowdrey Road.

The homeowner told the Standard workers alerted her to the discovery during renovations in September 2017, some 14 months after she moved in.

At first, they thought it was a model skeleton used by medical students. She said: "I said to them, 'You must be kidding? I was in total shock.