House-buyer finds body in wardrobe

An estate agent showing a would-be buyer round a house found the owner hanged inside a wardrobe.

Bachelor Mark Ditchfield, 48, had put the four-bedroom home on the market for £350,000 after his elderly mum Maud died.

The shocked agent and client discovered his body hanging by a trouser belt as they examined the space in the master bedroom's fitted wardrobes.



The viewer, in his 40s, fled the house and downed a brandy in a local pub to calm his nerves.

One regular said: “He was totally ashen, as if he had seen a ghost. He was shaking and asked for a stiff brandy. He could hardly put into words what he had seen, other than to say he and the agent were horrified.

“Everyone was stunned to hear about it. It goes without saying that it put him off buying the house.”