Body lay in High Street for 13 hours

The body of a man apparently lay in Orpington High Street for 13 hours before a passerby realised he was dead this weekend.

The man, thought to be in his mid-to-late-30s, was found on the ground outside the Job Centre at 5.05pm on Saturday.

But bystanders said he had been lying there since 4am that morning.

Mother-of-three Hayley Hind was passing by when the police were called.

She said: "A little bit of public spirit would not have gone amiss, you know, somebody stopping to say: 'Are you alright, mate?'

"Even if people thought he was just drunk or asleep it must have been unusual that he hadn't been moving at all to top up his alcohol levels or answer the call of nature.

"It's just so sad that he was left there for so long, there seems to be no compassion for anybody these days."