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In 1975, British forensic artist Richard Neave used a pile of modelling clay, two prosthetic eyes and a woman\\u2019s wig to reconstruct the face of an Egyptian mummy.

It was to be the start of a 40-year career recreating the faces of the dead using the pioneering \\u2018Manchester technique\\u2019 that he invented.

And as his reputation spread worldwide, the police came calling. They needed Richard\\u2019s skills to help catch a killer, as he told Jane Wilkinson.

(Photo: Richard Neave in 2012. Credit: Bethany Clarke/Getty Images)