Mystery man of Saddleworth Moor is FINALLY identified: Pensioner found fully clothed with £130 cash in his pocket and rat poison in his blood had travelled from Pakistan to die on a hillside

He was found dead on a cold hillside, fully clothed with £130 cash in his pocket and rat poison in his blood.

And after a year of investigations, the mystery man of Saddleworth Moor has finally been identified as a 67-year-old pensioner who had travelled to Britain from Pakistan two days before his death.

David Lytton was discovered clothed and lying prone on the ground above Dovestone Reservoir in Greater Manchester on December 12, 2015.

He had no wallet, mobile phone or other identification and remained unidentified despite public appeals and CCTV footage of his last known movements.

The day before he had travelled by train from London Euston to Manchester Picaddilly station and later went into The Clarence pub in Greenfield, Saddleworth, and asked the landlord the way to 'the top of the mountain'.

Today, Manchester North Coroner Simon Nelson said his name had been confirmed after police found he had travelled from Lahore to the UK two days before his death.

The family of Mr Lytton has been informed and a full inquest will take place in March.

Greater Manchester Police said Mr Lytton was from London. Previously it emerged he had strychnine in his system - a highly toxic substance used in rat poison.

He had also had a 10cm metal plate inserted into his left leg between 2001 and 2015, which indicated the operation would have taken place in Pakistan.

A container of medicine found on his body was also linked to Pakistan.

A number of theories about his identity had been discounted, including speculation that a survivor from a plane crash in 1949 near Indian's Head - the outcrop where he was discovered by a cyclist - that killed 24 people may have made a pilgrimage to the site.