POLICE are investigating today after a body was found in undergrowth in Ipswich.

POLICE are investigating today after a body was found in undergrowth in Ipswich.

Officers noticed a smell in Ranelagh Road in the early hours of this morning and went back to investigate in daylight.

At about 8am the body of a man, believed to be elderly, was discovered near Gippeswyk Park.

A spokesman for Suffolk police said: “The body appears to have been there for some time.”

He added that the death was currently being treated as unexplained.