Ellen Higginbottom
Ellen Higginbottom
Ellen with a lamb
Ellen Higginbottom (December 5 - June 2017) was an A-Level student at Winstanley College. [undefined] [undefined] [undefined]
Life and Activities
She was in relationship with Ryan Warren.
Her college bosses remember Ellen as being a young wonderful woman.
Disappearance & Death
At 7.20 p.m. local time, Ellen's family reported her missing after she failed to come home from Winstanley College. Friends stated they last saw her leaving college at 1pm. [undefined] [undefined] [undefined]
Greater Manchester Police found her body at around 2.30am on Saturday, June 17, 2017, seven hours after she was reported missing in Orrell Water Park, Wigan. [undefined] [undefined] [undefined]
Investigation
Police stated there was a report that two young women were followed by two men in the area where her body was found.
Post-mortem tests found that Ellen had been killed by multiple wounds to the neck. [undefined] [undefined]
An unidentified 47-year-old man of the Billinge area has been arrested on suspicion of murder. [undefined] [undefined] Authorities are also investigating if Ellen had been sexually assaulted. [undefined] [undefined]
A second man, aged 51, was arrested in Preston, Lancashire on June 18, 2017. [undefined]