Two young sisters found a woman’s head hidden in a plastic bag as they played on a beach yesterday.The girls, aged around five and thought to be on their Easter holidays, came across the head just after high tide.
Police later found a severed hand washed up on the sand.
Gruesome: The severed head is being stored in the red box on the beach while forensic teams check the scene
The grisly discovery was made in Arbroath on Scotland’s east coast shortly before 10.30am.
John Carswell, 32, a carpenter who was working in an apartment on the beachfront, just a short distance from where the head was found, saw the girls make their discovery.
“There were two red-headed little girls and they were playing at the water’s edge,” he said.
“I saw them poking about a black bin bag, when they suddenly took off screaming in a hurry, which I thought was a bit strange.
Two sisters playing on the beach made the grisly discovery after high tide and raced home to tell their mother
“I saw them come back with their mother and I asked her what was going on.
“She said she thought the girls had found a head and that she had called the police.
“Police officers came down and when they opened it up, I saw some hair and it was plainly a head.”
Detective Chief Inspector Graham McMillan, of Tayside Police, said: “It is still too early to say how long it has been in the water.
“The children who made the discovery are very upset and are being cared for by their parents.”
He said local police had no missing persons that matched the remains and appealed for anyone who worked or socialised in the area to contact police if they had seen anything suspicious.
The discovery is the second such find in the area in the past 13 months.
In March last year, the lower part of a man’s left leg was discovered washed up at nearby Broughty Ferry.
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