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| The body of a man has yet to be identified nearly a month after being found on an Isle of Wight beach in a kayak he bought three days earlier in East Sussex. | The body of a man has yet to be identified nearly a month after being found on an Isle of Wight beach in a kayak he bought three days earlier in East Sussex. |
| Police are treating the death of the man, believed to be in his mid-20s to mid-30s, as unexplained after his body was discovered on the shoreline at Yaverland beach, Sandown, on 11 September. | Police are treating the death of the man, believed to be in his mid-20s to mid-30s, as unexplained after his body was discovered on the shoreline at Yaverland beach, Sandown, on 11 September. |
| He was last seen on 8 September 50 miles east across the Channel at Brighton Canoes in Newhaven, where he bought a yellow and black “blow up” Sevylor Colorado kayak for £279.99. | |
| Believed to have had an Irish accent by staff in the shop, the man was described as white, well built with blue eyes and wearing beige shorts and a blue zip-up jacket. | Believed to have had an Irish accent by staff in the shop, the man was described as white, well built with blue eyes and wearing beige shorts and a blue zip-up jacket. |
| A grainy CCTV image of the unknown kayaker and an e-fit of his face have been released but despite information being shared across forces in Hampshire, Sussex and Ireland, police officers are no closer to identifying the man. | |
| A Hampshire police spokeswoman said: “We do not know where the man lived, or where he was originally from. The death is being treated as unexplained and inquiries are ongoing to try to establish the circumstances.” | |
| A postmortem was completed on 24 September but a cause of death has yet to be established by the coroner’s office. The body remains at the mortuary in St Mary’s hospital on the Isle of Wight. | |
| Coastguards received a call just after 7.40pm on 11 September from the police and ambulance service for assistance in recovering a person from the water. Bembridge RNLI, Solent coastguard, Sandown and Shanklin inshore rescue team and a coastguard helicopter were despatched in an operation that lasted up to 90 minutes, a spokeswoman said. |