SKYDIVER DEATH: NEW CLUES SKY NEWS
Police investigating the death of skydiver Stephen Hilder are expected to announce a major development in the case, amid growing speculation that the Army cadet took his own life.
Humberside Police has always refused to confirm reports the 20-year-old was responsible for cutting the cords on both his main and reserve parachutes.
But today senior officers are due to reveal the results of crucial new forensic tests.
The tests were ordered last month after the force announced it had discovered a "significant development" relating to the forensic side of the inquiry.
Detectives travelled to Hereford this week to brief Mr Hilder's parents on the new information.
Officers have refused to confirm reports that the police inquiry, which had been treating the death as murder, is to be scaled down.
Mr Hilder plunged 13,000ft to his death to his death last July while competing in a national skydiving contest at Hibaldstow, near Brigg, in Lincolnshire.
Detectives quickly found that cords on both his main and reserve chutes had been cut.
Police will reveal the new information at a news conference in Hull.