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Police have renewed an appeal over a man whose body was found in a reservoir wearing a wetsuit two years ago. <\/b><\/p>\n
Officers believed he had been in the water up to 12 weeks when a dog walker discovered the body at Claerwen Reservoir in Powys on 17 October 2024.<\/p>\n
The discovery sparked extensive police searches and international appeals, but nobody came forward.<\/p>\n
Det Insp Anthea Ponting, who has led the investigation, said it was a “highly unusual situation” that Dyfed-Powys Police are still no closer to identifying the man. <\/p>\n
The man was wearing a black XL Zone 3 Agile wetsuit, and it was estimated that he had been in the water for up to 12 weeks.<\/p>\n
Dyfed-Powys Police said an investigation has seen all reasonable and proportionate lines of enquiry carried out however the man’s identity remains a mystery.<\/p>\n
Detectives asked UK police forces to scour their missing person databases, and checked the man’s DNA and fingerprints with national records.<\/p>\n
When that didn’t produce any results, they cast the net wider, using the limited details they had to check for a match with the National Crime Agency’s larger missing persons register.<\/p>\n
Eventually, they reached out to Interpol, asking for international police appeals to be sent out to 24 European countries, and created a digital recreation of a man’s face in an effort to help find the identity. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n