Man’s body found below Maracas lookout

The body of a man was found be­low the North Coast Road near the Mara­cas look­out on Tues­day morn­ing.

Po­lice said a mem­ber of the pub­lic con­tact­ed the Mara­cas Bay Po­lice Sta­tion at about 10.26 am af­ter notic­ing a foul odour while walk­ing along the road short­ly af­ter 10 am.

The man’s body was found about 200 me­tres from the look­out, ap­prox­i­mate­ly 15 feet over a precipice on the east­ern side of the road­way.

He was bare­foot and wear­ing three-quar­ter-length blue trousers and a grey vest. His body bore what ap­peared to be in­juries.

En­quiries are con­tin­u­ing by Homi­cide Re­gion II.