A man has been charged with murder following the death of Javell Morgan in Moss Side. Javell, 20, was found by officers with critical injuries on Claremont Road shortly after midnight on Monday, August, 15.
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A piece of old floor carpet from a car, a patterned pinafore dress and an old Guinness sign from a pub. A sparse and bizarre collection of clues detectives were left with to find a killer.
On a cold January day in 2010, the Angel Meadow site just outside the city centre - no stranger to tragedy as the home of one of the largest and most notorious Industrial Revolution slums of its day in Manchester - gave up a violent secret. The covered body of a woman.
But to this day, and despite extensive police investigations both at home and aboard, the mystery of the Angel of the Meadow murder remains just that. No one knows who she is and no one knows who brutally brought her life to an end, or why.
The Manchester Evening News takes a look back at a puzzling unsolved murder police at the time vowed to solve.
Builders made the discovery. On January 25, 2010, human remains were found by workers in a digger at the £100m Co-op HQ site off Miller Street, known historically as Angel Meadow - the site of the cholera-ravaged slum philosopher Friedrich Engels branded 'Hell on Earth'.
It was also near to the former home of Arkwright's Mill – the city's first industrial scale cotton factory, built by Richard Arkwright in 1782. The discovery came just days after workmen replacing platforms one and two at nearby Manchester Victoria railway station found human remains in what was later confirmed to be a 150-year-old pauper's grave.
The site was an old car park, boarded by Angel Street and Dantzic Street, and it's understood a worker noticed a skull first, with police and forensic experts called to the scene later uncovering a skeleton. The whole site was excavated over days and a number of unusual items were discovered near the body.
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A man has been charged with murder following the death of Javell Morgan in Moss Side. Javell, 20, was found by officers with critical injuries on Claremont Road shortly after midnight on Monday, August, 15.
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