A SCHOOLBOY discovered a dead body on his walk through the woods to visit his aunt.

Nine-year-old Harry Bolt came across a body hanging from a tree when he took a short cut from Dunkery Road to Court Farm Road in Lower Marvel Woods, Mottingham.

He then ran to Court Farm Road to tell his aunt, Tracey Reed, what he had seen.

Ms Reed, aged 49, said: “He just came in running saying, ‘aunty Tracey, quick, quick, I found a man hanging in the woods. Call the police and the ambulance’.”

A spokesman for Bromley police said: “We were called at 1.58pm on October 9 to a man hanging from a tree.

“The 28-year-old man from Eltham was pronounced dead at the scene. His death is not being being treated as suspicious.”

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