Searching for Some Mother's Son: The skeleton in the gorse

A taskforce of 250 volunteers, working with coroners and the police has been set up to investigate hundreds of cold cases, piecing together unidentified human remains that have been found with evidence from bereaved families and information from international DNA databases.

"In memory of Some Mother's Son."

The words are carved into a headstone marking the grave of a young man, whose remains were found on a Cornish clifftop more than 40 years ago.

His identity has never been confirmed.

The case is now one of hundreds being reviewed as part of a pilot project involving a charity, Devon and Cornwall Police and the coroner's service to give names back to the unidentified.