For eight weeks in the winter of 2023, bushes on the edge of playing fields next to Broughton Cricket and Rugby Club hid a tragic secret.
More than seven months later, the family of Tanyaradzwa Matera is still desperate for answers. The popular 43-year-old was declared missing on October 24.
By that time, police believe he had been dead for over a week. He arrived in the UK from Zimbabwe in 2001 and for a while lived in Leicestershire.
In 2012, he moved to Manchester. READ MORE: 'We've heard about this with other families, but you never think it’ll be your own' According to his loved ones, who knew him as Julius, he was a 'remarkably friendly' man.
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