BODY FOUND IN LIBRARY
A man has been found dead next to a potted fern in Froghill Town Library.
The alarm was raised early yesterday afternoon by a library user who had attempted to engage the man in conversation.
Scaffolder’s mate Darren Piglett, 27, said: “I came in during my lunch break to have a read of the paper and I noticed this bloke sat in the corner who had a folded copy and a £10 note in front of him.
“So I went across to ask him if he’d finished reading it. When he didn’t say anything, I tapped him gently on the arm.
“And he just sort of keeled over and leaned against the wall. I think he’d been there quite a while because he made this funny creaking noise and he didn’t bend at all.”
Book borrowers looked on in hushed disbelief as police covered the body with several black bin liners and sealed off the ‘Crime’ section of the library in Bellhammer Road.
Investigating officer DS Geoff Bunton said only that the body of a man had been found and that he was unable to divulge any further information.
He was also unable to say whether police would be treating the death as suspicious.
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27/02/07 @ 09:30