Police have released an artist's impression of a mystery man who died from poisoning on a remote hillside in the Peak District National Park in December last year. Dubbed Neil Dovestone, after the reservoir on Saddleworth Moor close to where his body was found, the man remains unidentified despite extensive investigations. CCTV pictures were released last year showing the man walking through Manchester Piccadilly railway station on 11 December wearing a heavy jacket, blue jumper, blue cord trousers and slip-on shoes. At 2pm that afternoon he went to the Clarence pub in Greenfield, Saddleworth, asking for directions to the top of a nearby rock outcrop known as Indian's Head. The man was warned about poor weather conditions, but was last seen climbing the hill in the dark at about 4.30pm. His body was found by a cyclist the following morning and post-mortem results showed he died from strychnine poisoning. Detectives say they are not treating his death as suspicious.

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