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In 1994, German police pulled the brutalized body of ‘The Gentleman’ from the North Sea. New analysis suggests he was a long way from home

In July 1994, a male body was found by a police boat in the North Sea, west of the German Island of Heligoland.

The body showed signs of trauma and intriguingly, had been weighed down with cast iron cobbler’s feet, a shoemaker’s tool.

It was brought to the city of Wilhelmshaven in Germany for a post-mortem examination and later buried, but the man’s identity remained a mystery.

He became known as The Gentleman due to his apparent middle-class clothing: a wool tie, British-made shoes, French-made trousers and a long-sleeve blue dress shirt.

Now, 28 years later, a new piece of the puzzle has been uncovered thanks to criminology and forensic students in Perth.

You are what you eat

Criminologists and forensic scientists from Murdoch University may have helped to unravel the mystery after they ran new tests, which suggested the man spent most of his life in Australia.

In the 1990s, Investigators determined he was between 45 and 50 years old.

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