POLICE investigating the death of a man found close to a moorland reservoir above Burnley have found his car.

Officers are appealing for help to trace the mystery last movements of David Caine, 23, from Sowerby Bridge, who was slumped next to a wall by Clowbridge Reservoir, Manchester Road, on January 15.

Detectives cordoned off the area for forensic tests after walkers stumbled across the grim find. But police are not treating the death as suspicious.

Earlier this week police appealed for help to trace Mr Caine's green VW Polo which he was last seen driving. But the car has now been found at Leeds railway station and the focus of the investigation has now switched to how he got from Leeds to the remote spot where he died.

Det Insp Sam Birtwell, of Burnley CID, said: "Although we are not treating this death as suspicious we are trying to establish how Mr Caine spent the four days between his disappearance and death so that we can offer the family some explanation of what has happened."

An inquest into the death has been opened and adjourned.

The inquest opened last Friday by East Lancashire coroner Richard Taylor heard Mr Caine had been missing from his home for four days.