Detectives' five-month struggle to identify pedestrian who died crossing M1 in Northamptonshire

Experts produced this e-fit of a man who died on the M1 in November

Detectives are still trying to identify of a pedestrian who died trying to walk across a motorway in Northamptonshire in November.

The serious collision investigations unit's five-month battle for information have turned up nothing despite circulating the mystery man's DNA and fingerprints across Europe.

Now they have turned to experts at Liverpool's John Moores University for help, drawing up an Efit of what the man would have looked like in the hope someone will recognise him and finally come forward.

The man died at the scene after colliding with four vehicles on the M1 close to the DIRFT terminal at junction 18, near Crick, at nearly midnight on November 29, 2019.

Police said he had crossed the southbound carriageway before climbing over the central reservation and crossing three northbound lanes before he was in collision with a grey Volkswagen Polo and three further vehicles.

A spokesman for Northamptonshire Police also revealed: "We believe the man was in his late teens or early-20s, about 5ft 1in, with black hair and brown eyes. He had a wispy growth of facial hair and what looked to be an old piercing in his left ear lobe. He also has two faint linear scars, about 1.5cm and 3cm long, on the back of his lower left arm.

"At the time of his death, he was wearing a black, long-sleeved top marked with the words 'The Urban Club, Bronx', a black and grey jumper and black jeans. He had with him a European plug phone charger, some euros and a Samsung mobile phone with an Orange France sim card in it.

"If there is anyone who recognises this man or knows who he might be, please can they contact us on 101 or call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555111."