AN INQUEST has opened into the death of a 50-year-old man whose body was recovered from the River Medway at Maidstone.

The death of Trevor Neaves, a warehouseman, from Melville Road, Maidstone, is no longer being treated as suspicious.

A passer-by dialled 999 at about 7.40am on December 15 after seeing the body floating near to the Lockmeadow Millennium Bridge which links the Lockmeadow complex with the Archbishops Palace.

A post mortem has been carried out. It is believed the man, who lived with his brother, had been in the water for several hours.