IT was a mystery which gripped the nation.

Just who was the unknown man on the moor who was found dead near Dovestone Reservoir in December, 2015, without a single piece of identification?

It took local detectives and the National Crime Agency 12 months of painstaking work to identify him as David Lytton, a Londoner who had moved to Pakistan 10 years previously.

Now his intriguing and unexplained death is being brought to life at the Millgate Arts Centre, Delph, this weekend.

The Man on the Moor was written and will be performed by highly acclaimed actor-author Max Dickins as a fundraiser for Oldham Mountain Rescue.

If focuses on three questions: Who was this man? Why did he seemingly travel 200 miles to die? And why did nobody seem to miss him?

As the police went public with the man’s image, 40 different people reached out to claim “the man on the moor” as their missing husband, father or brother.

These people are “the left behind”, those who pick up the pieces when someone they love leaves and simply never comes home again.

In Max’s words: “This is their story.”

Tickets are £10 available from saddleworthlive.com.