writes John Hawkins.
Despite extensive investigations by police and a variety of medical experts, as well as DNA checks across Europe, nothing has been found to establish who the man was or how he came to die on Earl Bathurst's 15,000 acre Cirencester Park Estate.
Yesterday the assistant Gloucestershire Coroner, Roland Wooderson, drew a line under the investigation by conducting an inquest in the absence of almost all the information that is usually considered at such a hearing.
He read through police and medical reports which told him that the mystery man's remains were found on May 1, 2018, by a forestry worker checking tree safety in a beech copse at the edge of the estate near Two Mile Lodge, alongside the A419 road between Cirencester and Stroud.