Published: May 8, 2008
Burnham-On-Sea beach body is formally named by coroner

A naked body washed up on Burnham-On-Sea beach earlier this week has been formally identified as a man from Weston-super-Mare.

West Somerset coroner Michael Rose told Burnham-On-Sea.com the man has been named as 43 year-old Gary Lane, who was living in sheltered accommodation.

Mr Rose said: "He was living at 13 Clarence Road in Weston-super-Mare. The Home Office pathologist is carrying out a post mortem and we do not yet have a cause of death. The inquest has not yet been opened."

Emergency services were called to Burnham jetty at 7am on Bank Holiday Monday after a seafront walker made the unpleasant find. Coastguards, police, a Burnham lifeboat and an ambulance crew were sent to the scene.