Head-scratcher

A MYSTERY skull found by a dog walker near Granada two years ago belonged to a young man missing from Catalunya.

Police have revealed the head unearthed by an expat, near Orgiva, was that of a 21-year-old man from Barcelona.

They told the Olive Press they solved the mystery after running various DNA tests on the skull and later body that turned up two months later nearby.

It also helped that the man’s credit card was found next to the body.

The man had been reported missing in early 2021, having vanished in unusual circum

By Alberto Lejarraga

stances.

While they ruled out foul play the body and head were found some distance apart, yet both were right next to a popular car park where dozens of hippies live in vans.

“After running a DNA test, we confirmed the skull belongs to a young man who went missing in Barcelona earlier that year,” Juan Carlos Lo- pez, a Guar-