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Man found hanged in Hampstead

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Chloe Chaplain

Published: 12:08 PM April 8, 2016    Updated: 1:47 PM October 14, 2020
File photo dated 22/10/14 of of police officers as complaints against the police have reached record

File photo dated 22/10/14 of of police officers as complaints against the police have reached record levels, figures show. - Credit: PA WIRE

Police were called to the Hampstead Heath Extension this morning after a body was found.

Police have confirmed the body is a man who hanged himself.

A police spokesman said: “Police were called to the Heath Extension at 6:55 this morning and a body of a man was found hanged.

“It is not being treated as suspicious.”

Police are yet to formally identify the body.

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