A badly burnt body dumped in a Bankstown reserve on Monday has been identified as that of a 20-year-old western Sydney man who had become caught up in drug dealing.

Friends and relatives have been left dumbfounded by the death of Dane McNeill, whose body was left on a road in Lambeth Reserve in the middle of the night.

Murder victim Dane McNeill with friend Laura Harris.

Mr McNeill's badly burnt body was found by council workers at 5am on Monday, 50 metres from a locked entrance gate to the reserve.

His body was so charred it took police two days to identify him.