UPDATE: Woman bailed after man dies in Worthing hotel

POLICE have bailed a 31-year-old woman on suspicion of possessing cocaine with intent to supply after a man died in a busy Worthing hotel yesterday (Wednesday, July 29).
By Tom Cotterill
Published 30th Jul 2015, 14:55 BST

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A policewoman at the Chatsworth hotel yesterday morning PHOTO: Eddie Mitchell SUS-150730-134644001A policewoman at the Chatsworth hotel yesterday morning PHOTO: Eddie Mitchell SUS-150730-134644001
A policewoman at the Chatsworth hotel yesterday morning PHOTO: Eddie Mitchell SUS-150730-134644001

Police were called to the Chatsworth Hotel, The Steyne, at around 4.15am today following a report that a man – understood to be from Worthing – had collapsed in a room.

At the time, a spokesman for Sussex Police said: “Paramedics were already present but efforts to revive the 58-year-old man were sadly unsuccessful and he was pronounced dead at the scene.

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“The circumstances of his death are currently being treated as unexplained.

Police at the scene PHOTO: Eddie Mitchell SUS-150730-134655001Police at the scene PHOTO: Eddie Mitchell SUS-150730-134655001
Police at the scene PHOTO: Eddie Mitchell SUS-150730-134655001

“The coroner has been informed.”

Yesterday the force arrested a 31-year-old woman. She has since been bailed until September 30 on suspicion of possessing cocaine, a class A drug, with intent to supply.

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