September 17, 2006 - 3:04PMA body has been found at the bottom of a cliff at a Sydney beach.
Police said they received a call from a member of the public who had spotted a body on the rocks below Dunningham Reserve, at the northern end of Coogee Beach just after 12pm (AEST) today.
Rescue helicopters and crime investigators are at the scene trying to retrieve the body, a police spokeswoman said.
The body is yet to be identified.
No other details were immediately available.
Looking out the window this afternoon my girlfriend spotted large crowds of people gathered behind police tape barriers on a clifftop. Here is the cliff in question: (photo taken weeks ago)
http://nf.wh3rd.net/dump/clifftop.jpg
We hurried over there to see what was going on, and as we arrived a police rescue helicopter flew over us.
http://static.flickr.com/83/245267097_520e9652a1.jpg
They lowered a couple of paramedics down, and the helicopter landed nearby while (I presume) they assessed the situation and readied the body to be put on a stretcher.
http://static.flickr.com/80/245267100_7a25ca99a0.jpg
The helicopter returned, lowered a stretcher, and pulled it back up to reveal the body wrapped in white plastic. Definitely dead. Four police carried it on the stretcher to their cars nearby.
As the crowd dispersed, we went around to the police vehicles, and using our binoculars we were able to catch a view of the body uncovered. The head was split in half, revealing bloody gore. It was a male, fully clothed (although the shirt was pulled up to reveal red cuts and scratches on the torso).
I wonder who it was? And was it suicide, an accident, or murder? I would presume it happened the night before as there was nobody around looking distressed.
― Andrew (enneff), Sunday, 17 September 2006 09:16 (nineteen years ago)
The image/photo of the wrapped body is very disturbing. I should be used to this kind of stuff, what with the war and all, but there's something really poignant and sad about that image.
― aimurchie (aimurchie), Sunday, 17 September 2006 12:07 (nineteen years ago)
The image/photo of the wrapped body is very disturbing.That's not the body. It's the white-clad paramedic being lowered down. The body was retrieved on a stretcher, and I didn't take any shots of it.
― Andrew (enneff), Monday, 18 September 2006 04:54 (nineteen years ago)
seventeen years pass...