Police appeal for help in identifying body of man found on East Lothian beach

Police Scotland has called on the public to help identify a man whose body was discovered yesterday morning on a beach near Longniddry Golf Club.

Police are apealling to the public to identify the body of a man discovered on Longniddry beach yesterday morning.

Officers received a report at around 10.15am that a man’s body had been found on the beach.

The force has conducted enquiries and are assessing CCTV footage for any information of where the man has come from.

The man is described as white, slim and aged between 65 and 80. He is around 5ft 5in to 5ft 8in with long grey hair and a full grey beard.

He was wearing a dark blue Spray Way jacket, black jogging trousers and white Fred Perry trainers. He was also found in possession of a set of house keys with a fob and two inhalers, one blue and one black.

Detective Sergeant James Welsh said: “This is a tragic situation and despite a substantial effort by officers to ascertain the identity of the man, we still do not know who he is and we clearly want to let his family know what has happened.

"At this stage, we don’t know how the man died, he may have fallen or taken unwell, however, it’s imperative we establish exactly what has happened to him so we can notify his next of kin.”

The death is currently being treated as unexplained and is not believed to be suspicious.

A report will be sent to the Procurator Fiscal in due course.

Officers are continuing enquiries with colleagues across the country, in addition to searching the cases of outstanding missing people.

Anyone with information as to the identity of this man is asked to contact CID officers at Dalkeith Police Station via 101, quoting incident 0869 of 4 November.

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