UK UK - Cambridgeshire, Male Skull, 30-50, in Mepal quarry, May'16

A severed human head has been found in a quarry in Cambridgeshire.


Police said a worker at the site in Mepal, near Ely, made the horrifying discovery on Monday afternoon and officers from the region's major crime unit have launched an investigation.


Police are trying to establish how long the remains had been there. They are yet to discover if the remains are from a man or woman.


A Cambridgeshire Police spokeswoman said: "We were called at about 3pm yesterday afternoon with reports of the discovery of a human head at a quarry in Mepal.

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A severed human head has been found in a Cambridgeshire quarry.


The head was found by a quarry worker at Mepal, between Chatteris and Ely, on Monday afternoon. It is not yet known whether the head was male or female.


Officers are also searching a site 40 miles away in Sharnbrook, Bedfordshire, where they believe the head came from.

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A severed head has been discovered at a toxic waste facility in Cambridgeshire, police have said.


The head was found on Monday at 3pm at the Mick George Ltd waste facility in Mepal, Cambridgeshire.


It is understood police officers have been unable to determine if the head belongs to a man or a woman.

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Det Supt Chris Ward said: "Anybody who has seen a similar rug discarded anywhere, particularly within Aylesbury, Oxford, Milton Keynes or over the border in Bedfordshire, [or who has] has seen it, picked it up or moved it [should] to speak to us as soon as they can."

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A severed human head found 'covered in blood' and discarded in a quarry skip was that of a woman in her 30s or 40s, according to a stunned worker who made the grim discovery.


Police launched a nationwide investigation after the body part was uncovered at about 3pm yesterday in Mepal, near Ely, Cambridgeshire. Officers are treating the death as 'suspicious'.

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"Specialists are still unable to identify whether the head belongs to a man or a woman, however, based on the information available at this time, it is believed the person died before 1 January 2015.

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In particular, they said they were not linking it to missing women Natalie Hemming and children's author Helen Bailey - both of whom disappeared in recent weeks.

The force also said the find had not been linked to the murder of Ramute Butkiene, whose torso was found inside a suitcase in her killer's flat last year.

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A severed head discovered in a quarry could have come from a man who was decapitated by a passing train 50-years ago, the police have said.


The grisly find was made by workers in Cambridgeshire last month, but detectives said they believed it had initially come from a quarry site almost 40 miles away in Shanbrook, Bedfordshire.


Unable to identify it, police drafted in experts from the Natural History Museum in London and now think the victim may have been killed as the result of a tragic accident that was not known about at the time.

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