The M6 in Cumbria has been closed after a serious collision and a lorry fire - and is likely to remain so for hours, highways bosses have revealed.
08.02.2022 - 22:11 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
In a field next to a church, police who had launched a manhunt came across a body.
They moved closer, as they followed a path of freshly trodden down grass to where the man lay.
"Is he dead?," one officer wondered out loud.
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He had been badly burned to his hands and feet, but Mark See was very much alive.
See had spent the best part of 16 hours there. He was discovered in the foetal position on the grass.
Hours earlier, he had driven 12 miles from his home in Gorton, in his work van, to a churchyard next to Manchester Airport.
The van was found abandoned next to the Airport cargo centre, with its keys inside.
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Why he had driven there, not even See could explain.
But what police did know, was that he had fled from the scene of a devastating house fire which killed his mother, Sandra See.
She screamed as the intense blaze claimed her life in the most horrendous circumstances.
Mark See, 34, lay in a daze in hospital for two weeks after.
He overheard news reports on the radio about a fatal house fire in Gorton, but didn't realise the presenter was talking about him.
As he recovered in the burns unit, See made some disturbing comments.
He told a nurse he'd previously had thoughts of killing his mother in a house fire.
See described having 'terrible thoughts' while feeling low, how he thought of hurting himself and others, mainly his mother.
"He has had
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