20/03/2012

Man's Body Lay Undiscovered Since Christmas

A post mortem will be carried out tomorrow on the body of a man that lay undiscovered for three months at his home in Wexford.

The body was found on Sunday night after a passerby on Lower John Street in the town centre noticed a Christmas tree in the window with the lights still on.

With the house draped in Christmas decorations and the heating still on the body of the man, whose identity is not being released until his next of kin have been informed, was found on the floor in one of the bedrooms in an advanced state of decomposition.

A post mortem is to be carried out at Waterford Regional Hospital tomorrow.

The man's death is not being treated as suspicious.

(H)


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