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HeadlineHuman remains actually parts of model skeleton from dental surgery

Short HeadlineHuman remains are actually model skeleton

StandfirstThe human remains were found yesterday found at Greenwich recycling point.

Human remains found at Greenwich Refuse and Recycling centre are actually parts of a model skeleton from a dentist’s surgery, Police confirm.

The human remains were found at the dental surgery in Thameshead, shortly after 11:00am GMT on Tuesday.

Staff were looking through the waste and came across the bin bag of what was thought to be human remains.

They discovered a jaw bone, some teeth and a leg bone, according to reports.

However, these body parts actually belonged to a model skeleton used by a dentist. He had used the skeleton for medical training before he came to the UK in the 1960s, police said today.

Scotland Yard investigated the body parts and found them to be human.

Following this, the police contacted the contractor who dumped the waste.

They told police the skeleton came from a dentist’s surgery. The surgery had recently been cleared out after being abandoned for around a decade.

“Officers made contact with the surgery’s former dentist who is now retired, and he confirmed that the bones had been used in his medical training in India, and he had brought them with him to the UK in the 1960s”, said Police.

​The find has now been deemed “non-suspicious”.