Body found on Brighton beach

Tuesday, 01 Sep, 2014 0

A man’s body was found on Brighton beach close to the start of the Volk’s Electric Railway tourist attraction.

Police were called by a passer-by who spotted a hand and head sticking out of the shingle. They arrived at 09:25, said the Telegraph, and had to work quickly to remove the body before the tide came in.

The dead man, who has not been identified, was retrieved before high tide at 14:00 by officers from Sussex Police who cordoned off the area.

The previous high tide had been about eight hours earlier at 01:40 and it is not clear how the body ended up on the pebble beach.

A Sussex Police spokesman said: "Police officers and the coroner’s officers are working to establish the circumstances of how the body came to be there. The man has not been identified yet."



 

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Editor Linsey McNeill has been writing about travel for more than three decades. Bylines include The Times, Telegraph, Observer, Guardian and Which? plus the South China Morning Post. She also shares insider tips on thetraveljournalist.co.uk



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