Police are carrying out ‘painstaking’ inquiries to determine the identity of a person found dead in a car at the Point of Ayre.
The body was found in a blazing car on the Cranstal Road in Bride last week.Police say they don’t believe the incident was suspicious but due to its nature they are not yet in a position to make a formal identification.
Inspector Derek Flints says there is still lots of forensic work to do:
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