’IT WAS AN ACCIDENT - HE GOT UNLUCKY’

Mariyan Iliev, who lives in Singleton, called police after the two lorry drivers found Mr Jastrzebski’s body.

The 49-year-old has run the Simply Good Food burger bar opposite Hothfield Common for about a year.

He said: “I have never heard of anything like this before – there were ambulances, police and forensic detectives here.

“The two lorry drivers asked me to call the police and they said it was an accident and that he got unlucky. The drivers had been trying to get in contact with him as no one had heard from him.”

Mariyan Iliev, left, who runs the Simply Good Food burger bar at Hothfield Common, called police