AN INQUEST is this afternoon being opened and adjourned into the death of Lee Hill of Ballingdon Street, Sudbury.

At about 11.30pm on Friday the 36-year-old was pronounced dead at the river by the water meadows near the rear of 97 Ballingdon Street.

Mr Hill was reported missing on Monday, August 6.

The inquest is a paper exercise only and will be opened and adjourning at 5.30pm at the Coroners Office at Bury St Edmunds Police Station in Raingate Street.