horrified residents on the Ana Maria 2 urbanisation in Calypso awoke to find a dead body hanging from a tree only a few metres from their front doors. The man, in his 30s, appears to have committed suicide, by hanging himself by the neck from a lower branch. One local resident said: “At 8.30, my wife walked with me to the front gate when I was leaving for work. “We noticed that the Guardia Civil had blocked off the road a little further up the hill. We were then horrified to see a body hanging from a tree only a few metres from the front of our house. “My wife burst into tears and I must admit that I felt shaken, too. We went back inside our house and when we left together an hour later the body was still hanging there. “I asked a policeman if they knew who the man was and he said they had not yet established his identity.”
Having spoken to other residents in the area, it is rumoured that the man was of Eastern European origin and may have been involved in drug trafficking and prostitution, although these reports have not been confirmed.