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| Human remains found in Bournemouth golf course tree | Human remains found in Bournemouth golf course tree |
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| More human remains have been found in a tree on a golf course, a day after a dog discovered an arm. | More human remains have been found in a tree on a golf course, a day after a dog discovered an arm. |
| Dorset Police said body parts were found in a "hard to reach location" up a tree at Meyrick Park Golf Club in Bournemouth, shortly after 12:00 BST. | |
| The dog had brought remains of an arm and hand to its owner from a wooded area near the fourth hole on Monday. | |
| The body has not been identified nor its gender determined but police said the remains were decomposed. | The body has not been identified nor its gender determined but police said the remains were decomposed. |
| Dorset Police said the body parts were found 40ft (12m) up a tree in a "secluded wooded area off the main golf course", after a specialist team of sniffer dogs from South Wales Police were brought in to help the investigation. | |
| Det Insp Mark Samuel said he thought the remains had been there for "more than weeks, I'd estimate months". | |
| "We're not treating it as suspicious. We are keeping an open mind and trying to find out what happened and identify this person," he added. | |
| He said unsolved missing persons reports were being investigated. | |
| The area has remained sealed off while further forensic examinations and a recovery operation are carried out. | The area has remained sealed off while further forensic examinations and a recovery operation are carried out. |
| A police spokeswoman had said the arm initially found "was not wrapped or covered and did not have any identifying features on it". | |