Remains found after woman tells police she killed man and buried him in garden

A woman who told police she had killed a man and buried him in a garden is being questioned by murder detectives following the discovery of human remains.

Greater Manchester Police said the 63-year-old woman sparked an investigation at a house on Matlock Road in Reddish, near Stockport, after walking into a police station and telling officers she had killed a man “a number of years ago”.

Investigators searching the property on Tuesday discovered human remains, which are believed to be those of a man.

Door-to-door inquiries have been conducted on the street, with residents being asked if they know a man called Kenneth Coombes.

The questionnaire suggests Mr Coombes was in his late 80s in 2005.

A man by the same name who was recorded as living on the street would have been 99 years old today.

The man was registered as living with a 63-year-old woman called Barbara Coombes.