UPDATE | Body found on Southport beach

7th June 2017
Body found on Southport beach

Body found on Southport beach.

UPDATE – 11AM TUESDAY 27 JUNE

The man is believed to be a 59 year-old from the Sefton area.His next of kin have been informed but formal identification has yet to take place.

The death is being treated as unexplained but not suspicious and a file has been passed to the coroner.

Original 
At 10:30 this morning today, 26 June, Merseyside police received a call from a member of the public reporting the body of a deceased man on the marshland adjacent to the Coastal Road in Birkdale.

Police officers and paramedics attended the scene.

Officers are making further enquiries and are investigating the circumstances of the man’s death.