Mijas body identified as a missing Irish man
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By m.p. - Jul 6, 2009 - 4:08 PM
The burnt remains were found in a waste pipe near the football ground in April

The remains of a badly burnt body found in a waste pipe near the Mijas football ground this April has been identified as that of a 57 year old Irish man who was last seen alive in Mijas on 11th April, the same day the body was found. Diario Sur reports the man was reported missing by his girlfriend at the National Police station in Torremolinos 5 days later, and also by his daughter in the UK.

His name has not been released to the press, but it’s understood he was identified thanks to part of a prosthetic knee found at the scene whose serial number was traced to a factory in Sweden. The UK clinic which performed the knee operation had however been closed for many years, but Civil Guard later contacted the woman who had filed the missing person’s report in the UK, who sources quoted by Sur say confirmed her father had had knee surgery at the clinic in question.

The newspaper said Spanish detectives have requested DNA testing from police in Ireland to definitively confirm their identification.

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