10th March 2010

WEYMOUTH: Body in harbour

A BOATOWNER has found the clothed body of a man floating near his craft in Weymouth Harbour.

The body was discovered floating face down close to harbour pontoons near the Sailor’s Return pub barely 100 metres from Town Bridge.

An eye witness said: “He was a big man, he was wearing jeans and it looked like he was taken away by an ambulance.”

Police said they were alerted by a 999 call from the boatowner who comes from Bridport.

Coastguards and an ambulance crew attended the scene and police said the man’s death was being treated as “unexplained”.

The road at the Crown Hotel as well as St Nicholas Street and the end of Custom House Quay were sealed off while officers examined the scene and the body was recovered.

Police added that crime scene investigators also attended the scene to carry our forensic examination while an ambulance paramedic confirmed that the man was dead.

His body was taken by undertakers to a mortuary at Dorset County Hospital, Dorchester.

Police said investigations were continuing.

The dead man has since been named as Glyn Watkins.