POLICE have been investigating the discovery of a body found in a lay-by just outside Ventnor.
A number of police vehicles attended the scene and a cordon was thrown around a lay-by named locally as the Viewpoint in Leeson Road.
Salesperson Diana Gray, 43, from Ventnor, who was on a No.3 bus from Ryde, said: “It all looked very dramatic. There were police on both sides of the road.
“There was a body covered over by a white sheet. My daughter could see feet poking out of the end of it. There was an ambulance and the three police vehicles. A policeman was helping an elderly lady who had a dog with her.”
A spokesman for Hampshire and IW Police said: “Police can confirm they were called to the Leeson Road area of Ventnor, at approximately 8.50pm last Sunday.
“The body of a man believed to be aged in his 80s had been found by a member of the public. He was later pronounced dead. The next-of-kin were informed and the death is not being treated as suspicious. A post-mortem examination and formal identification of the body will take place in due course.”
