Body dug up in murder inquiry

Manchester - Detectives investigating a doctor accused of murdering four of his patients exhumed another body yesterday.

Manchester - Detectives investigating a doctor accused of murdering four of his patients exhumed another body yesterday.

Dr Harold Shipman (52), from Hyde in Greater Manchester, is in custody charged with the murders. The body of Ivy Lomas, (63), was exhumed from a local cemetery yesterday morning.

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