A teenage boy was found hanged from a tree in an Eastbourne park after an apparent suicide bid today.
The body was hanging from a 3ft-long electrical cord off Decoy Drive, Hampden Park.
A passer-by discovered the fully-clothed body on the park's main footpath at around 8am.
Police threw a cordon round the scene, set beside a duck-filled lake and near Eastbourne Indoors Bowls Club.
However, shocked early-morning walkers could still glimpse the body from elsewhere in the park before it was removed just after 8.30am.
Mary Long, 34, of Hampden Park, Eastbourne, saw the body as she took her dog for its morning walk.
She said: "It's shocking. I normally walk the dog an hour earlier. Had I done that today I would have walked straight into it. It's a tragedy."
The coroner's office has been informed. Police are not treating the death as suspicious.
A force spokesman said: "We're not looking for anyone else in connection with this. Inquiries are now ongoing to find out the identity of the deceased."
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