Police issue unusual request after severed foot found near Grimsby
It was found on a footpath in New Waltham two years ago
Police in North East Lincolnshire have made an unusual request two years after a severed human foot was found on a footpath.
Humberside Police have been carrying out extensive searches after the discovery in 2019 in New Waltham, but are yet to find a match using DNA testing.
However, officers are now looking into the possibility that the foot was discarded clinical waste, which somehow ended up discarded in the open.
Detective Chief Inspector Alan Curtis, of Humberside Police, said:
“A team of detectives have been working tirelessly to ascertain the identity of the individual and to determine how the body part came to be on the path.
“One line of our enquiry is that the foot may have been clinical waste from a medical procedure. This line of enquiry cannot be ruled out without a full and thorough investigation.
“Although this must seem a very strange request we are now appealing for any female in the Humberside Police Force area and Lincolnshire that has had a medical procedure to remove her left foot since 2014 to contact us.
“The NHS have been able to provide certain information in relation to historical surgeries but this would not include any private medical procedures, so by issuing this appeal now we are hoping to rule out anyone within this category of patient.
"If you have had such a medical procedure in the past eight years whether through the NHS or through private medical services I would ask you to call us, your call will be treated with the utmost respect and privacy.
“I encourage anyone that would be in this category of amputees to contact us.