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Paul Morris Birmingham canal (West Midlands Police)Police patrol canal in bid to uncover new evidence which may explain cyclist’s death
West Midlands Police patrolled a Birmingham canal yesterday in a bid to uncover new information related to the death of a cyclist in the area last month.
The body of Paul Morris was discovered at around 6.15pm on Tuesday 21 December at the junction of Ledsam Street and Ladywood Middleway, in Ladywood, west of the city centre.
In CCTV footage released by the police last week, the 65-year-old can be seen riding his bike along the towpath shortly before his body was found.
Morris’ death is currently being treated as unexplained after a forensic post-mortem examination was inconclusive. However, police do not believe there is anything to suggest foul play was involved.
#ICYMI | Officers are patrolling the canal in Birmingham this evening, speaking to members of public to see if anyone has any information on the death of Paul Morris.
Mr Morris' body was recovered from the canal three weeks ago, and we need your help to determine what happened⬇️ https://t.co/bzQwcFm8EG
— Birmingham Police (@brumpolice) January 11, 2022
Yesterday evening police officers patrolled the canal network, speaking to members of the public to discover if anyone has information which may shed light on how Morris died.
Last week Detective Inspector Ade George launched a public appeal aimed at giving Morris’ family "the answers they need".
"There is very little CCTV along this stretch of the canal so I’m asking for anyone who was around the area between 5pm and 7pm on the evening, to get in touch,” DI George said in a statement.
"Our thoughts are with Mr Morris’ family at this really sad time.”
Anyone with information can contact West Midlands Police via the Live Chat on their website, quoting reference number 3308 of 21/12/2021.
After obtaining a PhD, lecturing, and hosting a history podcast at Queen’s University Belfast, Ryan joined road.cc in December 2021 and since then has kept the site’s readers and listeners informed and enthralled (well at least occasionally) on news, the live blog, and the road.cc Podcast. After boarding a wrong bus at the world championships and ruining a good pair of jeans at the cyclocross, he now serves as road.cc’s senior news writer. Before his foray into cycling journalism, he wallowed in the equally pitiless world of academia, where he wrote a book about Victorian politics and droned on about cycling and bikes to classes of bored students (while taking every chance he could get to talk about cycling in print or on the radio). He can be found riding his bike very slowly around the narrow, scenic country lanes of Co. Down.
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