A man is still being questioned in connection the death of a teenager whose headless body was found dumped in a bin in Blackpool.

Detective Supt Paul Buschini (Dur: 0-13")

But detectives stress they are continuing to look for whoever might have killed 17-year-old funfair worker Christopher Hartley and dismembered his corpse.

The teenager's body was found behind this hotel

The 29-year-old man being held in Blackpool was arrested 50 miles away in Salford, Greater Manchester, on Wednesday night.

Police are trying to trace the source of a telephone call that led them to make the arrest.

They have renewed appeals to the teenager's friends in the resort to come forward and provide clues to the reason for his death.

Christopher Hartley: police want to hear from friends

Christopher, from Burnley, Lancashire, had gone to the resort to seek work eight months ago and had held jobs at the Pleasure Beach funfair and on stalls on the resort's Golden Mile.

Tests have so far been unable to show how he died. His dismembered body was found on Tuesday afternoon in a waste bin behind a hotel near the spot was he was last seen alive some nine hours earlier.

Detective Supt Paul Buschini

Detective Superintendent Paul Buschini said it was vital that the severed head was found to establish the cause of death and a possible motive.

"We still don't have a motive, we have still not located the head and we do not have a cause of death," he added.

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