HUMAN REMAINS FOUND Stoke-on-Trent
Human remains found in Stoke-on-Trent have now been identified. Staffordshire Police confirmed the news on the 26th on March 2025 that the skeletal remains found at Festival Park in Etruria, at 15:30 on 2 March 2025.
Darren Green, aged 42, from Stoke-on-Trent, was reported missing on 16 July last year and the sad news has left his family devastatedMr Green’s family said: “Today we have been informed of the tragic loss of Darren. Our thoughts and prayers go out to everybody affected by this.
“We would like to thank the emergency services and Staffordshire Police for their professionalism, care and understanding and ask that our privacy be respected at this sad time.”.
In this case we saw some very good reporting by local press who provided us with a lot of content to help share the appeal to identify Darren Green. Drones were used to gather so images of the site and the area Darren Green’s body was found in and this helped generate a very good newsworthy appeal.
Staffordshire Police pulled a number of resources and expanded their search parameters adding a wider cordon and extra forensic tents to ensure Darren Greens privacy and dignity. The fact they got a result very quickly shows how dedicated the team were in obtaining the then unidentified males body. Although it is not always possible, it would be great to see a faster turn around in unidentified cases.
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Festival Park remains identified as missing Darren
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Published:00:0026/03/2025Updated:00:0026/03/2025
The remains of a human skeleton discovered in Stoke-on-Trent have sadly been identified as missing person Darren Green.
The 42-year-old, from Stoke-on-Trent, was reported missing to us on 16 July last year.
We are not treating his death as suspicious.
Specially-trained officers are supporting his family at this difficult time.
In a statement, they said: “Today we have been informed of the tragic loss of Darren. Our thoughts and prayers go out to everybody affected by this.
“We would like to thank the emergency services and Staffordshire Police for their professionalism, care and understanding and ask that our privacy be respected at this sad time.”
We were called to Festival Park in Etruria at 3.40pm on Sunday 2 March after the discovery of a skeleton in the area.
As part of our investigation, detectives and forensic teams, including an anthropologist, a botanist and an archaeologist, carried out a thorough inspection of the scene over a number of days.
DNA analysis was used to identify Darren.
You can see my previous reporting below as the prior article will now be removed.
HUMAN REMAINS FOUND Stoke-on-Trent
6th Mar 2025
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It was Sunday the 2nd of March 2025 at around 3:40pm when Staffordshire police received a call from a member of the public alerting them that they had found what they believed were skeletal human remains near Festival Park in Etruria, Stoke-on-Trent.
Police detectives and forensic teams along an anthropologist, a botanist and an archaeologist have remained at the scene for a number of days to conduct a thorough investigation to help identified the unidentified missing person who may have laid undiscovered from weeks to years.
From Sunday the 2nd of march until today a police cordon was put in place and has been widened in the following days.
Stoke-on-Trent live have been at the scene taking arial photography and video footage of the scene and have passed on several questions to detectives in hopes to get a better idea of who has been discovered. To find more about live updates on the Stoke-on-Trent website please click the blue link above.
It is unknown yet if the unidentified remains are of a male or female and no further information has been given of the type of clothing or possessions this person may have worn or owned.
As we know over the years a number of missing persons cases have been delayed at entering the missing persons register so it is imperative that police and the public try and think back to any missing persons cases.
A spokeswoman said: “A spokeswoman said: “We can now confirm that the remains are human but at this time they have not been formally identified. A scene is in place while investigators examine the scene. We want to assure the local community that although this is an unsettling discovery, we have a visible presence in the area to investigate, provide reassurance and to listen to any concerns.”
If you have any information you should call the police on 101, quoting incident number 397 of 2 March, or call Crimestoppers, anonymously, on 0800 555111.
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