Police are still treating the death of a one-legged man who fell from a first floor window as “unexplained” a year on from the plunge that killed him.
John Mottram was found badly injured in the rear garden of a block of flats in Dens Road, Dundee, on July 26 last year and died two days later.
Earlier this year murder squad detectives arrested then released without charge two women over his death.
Now a year on from his death police have urged anyone with information to come forward and described the case as “complex and challenging”.
Detective Inspector Brian Geddes, who is in charge of the probe for Police Scotland’s Major Investigations Team, said: “The investigation into the death of John Mottram has been complex and challenging, and there remains a continued drive to bring it to a satisfactory conclusion in the near future.
“I would like to thank the many people who have come forward with information and spoke to officers.
“This remains a live, ongoing investigation I would still like to hear from anyone who has information regarding the incident, and urge them to contact us”.
Mr Mottram, 50, lost his leg four years ago after suffering a blood clot.
In May last year he told how he had been left living in homeless accommodation since losing his leg because he could no longer climb the stairs to his former home in a third-floor flat, and had been on a council waiting list for three years for a new home.
He had at that point been living at the Lily Walker Centre in Dundee’s Ann Street – close to the garden where he was found dead.
Speaking in May last year, Mr Mottram said: “I had to give up my flat because I was on the third floor and there was no way of me getting up the stairs.
“I lost my leg because of deep vein thrombosis. The clot blocked the blood flow to my leg and it ended up dying.
“There was no choice but for it to be amputated.
“It completely changed my life — even now I still struggle with it.
“I have been in the Lily Walker Centre for two years but I don’t think I will ever get out of here.
“I need to have a ground-floor place because of my chair and there isn’t any.
“I feel like people always get put above me on the list and there just aren’t enough homes to go around. I am frightened that I will never get back to the life I once had.
“I don’t want the world, all I want is a wee place that I can call my own.”
