Police report to coroner into Somerton Man case complete 'very soon' | ABC NEWS

The man who claims he solved the identity of the Somerton Man through DNA matches says SA Police has told him it is close to finishing its report for the coroner to officially put the 78-year mystery to rest.

Professor Derek Abbott said he was "99.99 per cent sure" the body found on Adelaide's Somerton Beach on December 1, 1948, was Carl "Charles" Webb.

But SA Police is yet to present its findings to the coroner, five years after the man's body was exhumed.

Professor Abbott said SA Police had told him this would happen in the next two weeks and the coroner was expected to present his findings by the end of the year.

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