A police investigation has been launched after a body has been found in Southampton today.

The body of the man was was discovered shortly after 1am in Cranbury Avenue.

Emergency services were called after reports that the man had died in a flat.

Police were on the scene in the early hours of this morning and are trying to establish how the man died.

Daily Echo:

A Cranbury Avenue resident told the Daily Echo that he had been woken by flashing lights at about 2am and went out into the street to see what was happening.

Richard Hurren went back into his house but was disturbed by the sounds of car doors slamming.

Mr Hurren, 43, said: "There were two marked cars and two CID cars but the police wouldn't say anything.

"A couple of them left and then at about 4am a private ambulance came.

"They were taking locked evidence bags and the last police vehicles left at about 5am. I have been awake ever since."

A police spokesman said the death was now being treated as non-suspicious.