Brockwell park - man found hanged 18/10/08
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gaijingirl
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I asked one of the guys and he just said "an incident" echoing the notices on the gates. The whole section by the playground is cordoned off, yet they've even closed the gym down on the other side - so it doesn't look good ... 
gaijingirl
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How sad.... that same thing happened only relatively recently up by the tennis courts (they didn't close the entire park that time) - I think it was a drugs related death last time.
that same thing happened only relatively recently up by the tennis courts (they didn't close the entire park that time) - I think it was a drugs related death last time.
Missez
Britisher Abroad
How sad....
Was that the same one as the body they found behind the walled garden last year sometime? That was on a Sunday because the Body stayed there all day while they examined it.
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
May be the rumour mill kicking into over-drive, but I just heard that the closure was due to a man hanging himself in the children's playground.
goldengraham
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I heard this one too
gaijingirl
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walkssoftly
Active Member
Saw the flowers laid by the railings when I went on my Sunday run, very sad.
Full story from the SLP
BOUQUETS line the railings of a popular children’s playground where a man was found hanged.
Friends and well-wishers left flowers and special messages for the man believed to be from the Tulse Hill estate and aged between 25 and 35 years old.
His body was discovered suspended from play equipment next to the One O’Clock in Brockwell Park on Saturday morning by a woman walking her dog.
Police were called and forensics teams sealed off the playground and the surrounding park area for several hours while they investigated.
A resident of Arlingford Road, which backs on to the park in Herne Hill, said it was a tragedy.
The mum-of-two, who asked not to be named, said: “I set off to the park with my children on Saturday morning at about 9.30am, as we do most weekends, but park officials said to turn around.
“They said a man had been found dead and that the children’s playground was now a crime scene.
“It seems so macabre that it was the children’s play area. I feel so sorry for his poor family and friends.”
A police spokesman confirmed the body of a man aged between 25 and 35 had been found hanging at the park but added that his death was not being treated as suspicious.
An inquest into the man’s death is due to open at Southwark Coroner’s Court.
Full story from the SLP
BOUQUETS line the railings of a popular children’s playground where a man was found hanged.
Friends and well-wishers left flowers and special messages for the man believed to be from the Tulse Hill estate and aged between 25 and 35 years old.
His body was discovered suspended from play equipment next to the One O’Clock in Brockwell Park on Saturday morning by a woman walking her dog.
Police were called and forensics teams sealed off the playground and the surrounding park area for several hours while they investigated.
A resident of Arlingford Road, which backs on to the park in Herne Hill, said it was a tragedy.
The mum-of-two, who asked not to be named, said: “I set off to the park with my children on Saturday morning at about 9.30am, as we do most weekends, but park officials said to turn around.
“They said a man had been found dead and that the children’s playground was now a crime scene.
“It seems so macabre that it was the children’s play area. I feel so sorry for his poor family and friends.”
A police spokesman confirmed the body of a man aged between 25 and 35 had been found hanging at the park but added that his death was not being treated as suspicious.
An inquest into the man’s death is due to open at Southwark Coroner’s Court.
