Scientists have a 430,000-year-old cold case on their hands, after analyses of fossils in a famous Spanish cave revealed evidence of the world’s first known murder victim.

Forensic reconstruction of a skull found in the Sima de los Huesos, or “pit of bones”, suggests it belonged to a homicide victim.

An international research team, which spent 20 years ­piecing the skull together from 52 fragments, says two fractures above the left eye were caused by “blunt force trauma”.

The cave, in northern Spain’s Atapuerca Mountains, lies beneath a 13m shaft and contains the remains of at least 28 early ­humans. Scientists have long wondered how they got there.

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