Bodies found at bottom of cliff
A MOTHER and her “disabled” fiveyear-old son were yesterday found dead at Beachy Head cliffs.
The bodies are the fourth and fifth found in six days at the beauty spot near Eastbourne in East Sussex.
Police are not treating any of the deaths as suspicious.
Police and Coastguard found the mum and boy around 7am yesterday.
Officers were alerted after a car was found abandoned on the top of the cliffs in the early hours. The pair have yet to be formally identified, but they are believed to be a 42-year-old woman and her son from Maidstone, Kent.
The woman’s body was found on the beach at the foot of the cliffs and recovered by the RNLI, it is understood.
The child was discovered by the Coastguard’s helicopter crew, on a ledge halfway down.
Sources suggest that the child was disabled.
A spokesman for Sussex Police said: “An investigation has been launched after the bodies of a woman and child were found at Beachy Head by police Mother and son, 5, die in plunge from Beachy Head and Coastguards at around 7am on Monday. Although the identities have yet to be confirmed, they are believed to be a 42-year-old woman and her fiveyear-old son from Maidstone, Kent.” The spokesman added: “The deaths are not being treated as suspicious. Inquiries are at an early stage.” A spokesman for the RNLI said: “The Eastbourne lifeboat was launched at 6am this morning to Beachy Head and recovered a casualty from the beach. The casualty was passed to the police coroner.” It comes after three bodies were found at the bottom of Beachy Head cliffs last week. On Wednesday, Eastbourne RNLI recovered the body of a 58-year-old man from London. During the operation, a second, badly decomposed body believed to be that of a woman was found nearby. A third body, thought to be that of another man from London, was found some distance away. Police said that the three deaths are not linked and they are not being treated as suspicious. BEAUTY SPOT Beachy Head