Kentish Express Ashford & District
Elderly man found dead in park area
slennon@thekmgroup.co.uk Police were called to a park in South Ashford on Saturday after a body was discovered.
Officers say the elderly man was found dead off Kingsnorth Road at 1pm.
Police are not treating the death as suspicious.
The man has since been identified and his next of kin have been informed.
The area where the man was found, a small park at the corner of Kingsnorth Road and The Limes, was taped off on Saturday for about three hours.
Ashford borough councillor Harriet Yeo, who lives nearby, said officers were concentrating on a small section, thick with trees and bushes and bor- dered by a children’s play area and a footpath.
The area is fenced off, in some cases by just a low boundary, with just one direct entrance from Kingsnorth Road.
She said: “It was an odd place for anyone to be, unless they are walking a dog there.
“But police were there for two or three hours and because it was a relatively short time that reassured me it probably wasn’t a suspicious death.”
Another neighbour, Josh Lepine, also noticed police activity in the area.
He said: “I saw them there for a short while but I didn’t know what was going on.”
A police spokesman said: “We were called to a park in Kingsnorth Road, Ashford, at 1pm on Saturday, to reports that the body of a man had been found.
“Officers attended and determined there were no suspicious circumstances to his death.
“A report will be prepared for the coroner.”