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This is all incredibly sad - the Gazette is reporting that the body of a woman has been found in the quay, very close to the Rose and Crown. The details are incredibly sketchy as of Thursday evening, but Essex Police add that:

“The death is not being treated as suspicious.”

I first heard the sirens whiz down the High Street shortly after 4pm. A helicopter hovered over the quay for what seemed like the best part of half an hour. I was going to head out and investigate. Work commitments kept me indoors. Out of respect for those involved, I’m pleased that I stayed back at base.

The Gazette piece speculates that the body is that of a woman who was declared missing earlier in the day. The cause of death hasn’t been confirmed as yet.

Sadly I became extremely cathartic to waking up back in South London and hearing about the latest daily death. Most of these were indeed of a suspicious nature - stabbings, guns shots etc.

The frequency of these somehow made you feel detached from what was happening around you. It is a rum state of affairs when a death, suspicious or not, is simply passed over as part of the daily local news cycle.

I somehow don’t think that the current Wivenhoe situation is going to be forgotten overnight, and I’m sure that locals will have many questions to ask. With the recent fire at the Wivenhoe Business Centre still very much an ongoing local problem to overcome, it’s been something of a fortnight to forget around these parts.

Much sympathy to any family and friends of the woman involved, not to mention the “member of the public” who reported the body in the quay to the police.