Police raced to the Britannia Adelphi Hotel in Liverpool city centre this afternoon after being alerted to a body – and arrived to find a man, aged in his 30s, dead
A man has been found dead at Liverpool’s Adelphi Hotel today after police were called to the city centre to reports a body.
Officers raced to the scene at around 1:30pm this afternoon where they found the man, aged in his 30s, deceased. His death is currently being treated as non-suspicious and a file is in now being prepared for the coroner. The man’s next of kin have also been informed, officers said. A spokesperson for Merseyside Police confirmed the man’s death in a statement which read: “We can confirm that emergency services are currently at a hotel in Liverpool city centre. At around 1.30pm today (Friday 23 May) officers were called to the Adelphi Hotel, on Ranelagh Street, after the body of a man aged in his 30s was found.
“The death is currently being treated as non-suspicious and a file is in the process of being prepared for the coroner. His next of kin have been informed.” Emergency service vehicles, including a forensics team, swarmed the hotel earlier today, with a large police presence also reported by guests at reception.
The Britannia Adelphi Hotel is in the heart of the city, close to the Empire Theatre and Albert Dock. It is one of the Liverpool’s best-known buildings, becoming the place many would visit for a night before they departed on a ship to the US in the early part of the 20th century. Passengers on the Titanic are known to have stayed there the before the ship’s fateful voyage. The Adelphi was one of the “main arrival and departure points for those travelling on ocean liners”, according to the hotel’s website.
The hotel is believed to be open as usual to guests checking in for the night, with some seen coming and going freely from the building earlier this afternoon.
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