It is no good trying to tell us to keep it hush.
A quick look back at a documented death in the canal at Canal Street, Gay Village Manchester.
From Oct 2013.
Bob Ramsbottom, 56, landlord of the New Union pub on Canal Street said: “We were upstairs on Friday night at around 10.30pm when we heard a very big splash.
“I looked out of the window – we saw someone walking away over the bridge. In nine years, there has been quite a few bodies found in this canal.”
William Johnston, 22, a customer at GAY, said: “We looked out into the canal when the police arrived and saw a black bag floating. You could only see one end of it but then the police prodded it with a stick and it turned around and you could see it was shaped like a body. We saw the divers go in and drag the bag along the canal and take it out.”
James Lemons, 31, said: “We looked into the canal and it was like you could see hair floating in the water out of the top of the bag but you couldn’t see what was attached to it.”
Lewis Knight, a student at the Royal Northern College of Music, said: “I have only been here two weeks and on my first walk out this is what I’ve seen. It is shocking to say the least.”
Another witness said they saw people on a canal boat stop at the lock and then peer into the water. It is believed the people on the boat called the police and were later seen being interviewed by officers.
Police confirmed a body had been found but said it was too early to say how long it had been in the water or how the person came by their death.
A spokeswoman said: “Just before 3.40pm on Sunday police were called to Canal Street near Union Street in Manchester city centre, to reports that there was a body believed to be in the water.
“Officers and underwater search teams located and
recovered the body from the water.
“Enquiries are ongoing to identify the individual and establish if there are any suspicious circumstances.”
Police confirmed a body had been found but said it was too soon to say how long the body had been in the water or how the person came by their death. ..'
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/police-find-body-floating-canal-6146961
41 hours.
Drowning.
A person was arrested.
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February 2011 - Trainee sports teacher Nathan Tomlinson, from Brinnington, Stockport, was found in the River Irwell having last been spotted shortly after leaving a Christmas party eight weeks previously.
Stockport coroner John Pollard recorded an open verdict but said police had been slow to investigate his disappearance and that ‘fundamental work’ - including checking CCTV footage was not carried out.
Mum Nina Tomlinson said an officer told her her son was ‘probably snuggled up to a nice young woman’ when she reported him missing on December 19 and has said she wants police to look again at the case.
January 2012 - Student Gurdeep Hayer, 20, from the West Midlands, was found dead in the River Medlock, after visiting Manchester to celebrate the New Year.
A post-mortem proved inconclusive and police said there were no suspicious circumstances.
July 2012 - Michael Turner, 43, was found dead in the River Irk on July 28 having last been spotted on CCTV eight days earlier.
His death was classed as non-suspicious but his family have insisted he wouldn’t have killed himself.
July 2012 - Chris Brahney, 22, from Timperley, who was found dead in the Manchester Ship Canal ten days after going missing from a Stone Roses concert in Heaton Park in June 2012.
He had become separated from his friends following the gig, sparking a massive manhunt across the region.
At an inquest into Chris’s death, deputy coroner Joanne Kearsley recorded an open verdict and admitted she simply couldn’t say how he had ended up in the water.
January 2013 - Student Souvik Pal, 18, originally from India was found dead in the Bridgewater Canal three weeks after he had been ejected from a New Year’s Eve party at the Warehouse Project dance night in Trafford Park.
He was seen walking away from the venue with a mystery man. CCTV footage showed two men then crossing a canal bridge before one tried to climb up a railing. The CCTV only shows one coming back but neither of the figures has ever been identified.
Coroner Joanne Kearsley said: “Despite extensive investigation it can not be ascertained where or how he entered the water.”
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Be especially cautious and careful around New Year's Eve?
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