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Woman's body found in sewage tank | Woman's body found in sewage tank |
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Police are investigating the death of a woman found floating in a sewage settlement tank in south-east London. | |
The partially-clothed body of Kaylene Lyle was discovered in the tank at Abbey Wood sewage works last Friday. | |
The 43-year-old drowned but she also had injuries to her neck and extensive wounds from machinery, a provisional post-mortem examination found. | |
Two days earlier she ran away from a Tooting hospital's casualty department in "an agitated state", police said. | |
Ms Lyle was last seen on 3 September at St George's Hospital in Tooting. | |
Det Ch Insp Dave Garwood said: "She was in an agitated state and staff sought to secure her for her own safety but she ran away before they could do so. | Det Ch Insp Dave Garwood said: "She was in an agitated state and staff sought to secure her for her own safety but she ran away before they could do so. |
"From there, we know she sought refuge in a nearby house, but left it via the back garden." | "From there, we know she sought refuge in a nearby house, but left it via the back garden." |
Jewellery found | |
It is thought she then walked from the house along a railway line to a culvert. The waterway leads eventually to the sewage works, which is several miles away. | |
Jewellery belonging to Ms Lyle was found within the culvert, but police do not believe it was forcibly removed. | |
They are trying to ascertain how Ms Lyle received the injuries to her neck, and are awaiting the results of toxicology tests. | |
"As part of this process we are taking the advice of the Health and Safety Executive and Thames Water about the effect of gases within the sewerage network on the body," a police spokesman said. | |
They are treating the death as "unexplained" but it is not a murder inquiry, he added. |
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