Man charged over bodyless murder

A 20-year-old man has been charged with murder after bloodstained clothing was discovered in Burnley.

Police said the blood found at a house on Stockbridge Road, Padiham, matched the DNA of Alan Lee Street, 26, but as yet no body has been discovered.

The bloody clothes were found by officers on Sunday at the house where an attack is believed to have occurred.

Kieran Davison, of Stockbridge Road, has been charged by police with Mr Lee's murder.

He will appear before Burnley Magistrates Court on Wednesday.

'Lucky' tattoo

Meanwhile police want to trace 43-year-old Alan Palmer, the owner of the house where the blood was found, who has not been seen since Saturday morning.

Officers are also looking for his car, a blue Mitsubishi Colt with the registration PE58 OJY.

Mr Palmer is described as 5ft 11ins tall, of medium build and with receding dark brown hair.

He has brown eyes and several tattoos on his left arm of a snake head, bull, eagle snake and swallow.

On his right arm Mr Palmer has a snake and skull, and two flower designs with 'MAM' and 'LUCKY' with a swallow.