Voltage on 5 core cable ?

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Went to a boiler today were a length of 5 core flex has been connected to the boiler but only 4 cores have been used eg Live , Neutral , S.Live & earth , there is 140 volts on the unused core , measured between the core & earth ? neither end is connected to any thing ? renewed the flex same thing ?? is there an obvious explanation ?? or ??
 
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Capacitive coupling. Put a test lamp between the unused core and earth and watch as bugger all happens.

Why is the unused core not earthed?
 
So any unused cores that are not use should be connected to the earth ?
 
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Would you like a piece of presumably unconnecter copper floating around (in two senses) in the box, which may or may not be as dead as you think?

Not that you should be poking around with a live supply, but still.
 

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