At 2pm on Tuesday 25TH February 2014 an off duty police officer and his wife were walking along Perranporth beach in Cornwall at high tide and found the body of a man washed up on the beach about 30 meters in front of the Watering Hole bar.

The off-duty officer said he and his wife initially saw a shape at the water’s edge and joked that it looked like a body.

“I didn’t believe it was a body, I thought it was probably a couple of plastic containers,” he said.

His wife walked closer and shouted to her husband that it actually was a body.

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