A 34-year-old man was found hanged on Mitcham Common this morning.

Police and ambulance were called to the scene at 11.44am after a passerby discovered the body at Seven Islands Pond.

London Ambulance Service sent a single responder in a car, an ambulance crew and a duty officer to the scene at 11.45am, but the man was pronounced dead at the scene shortly after noon.

The coroner's office has been informed. Police are not treating the death as suspicious.

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