Police are not treating the death of a woman found at a house in the early hours of yesterday as suspicious.

Investigation - a member of the forensic team outside the house in Witham Picture: ADRIAN RUSHTON

Officers were called to the address in Mersey Road, off Highfields Road, Witham, at 3am yesterday after being alerted by an ambulance crew, who discovered the body of the 42-year-old woman.

Her husband, who was also at the house, was taken to Broomfield Hospital, Chelmsford, after a suspected overdose, police said.

He was later released after being treated by doctors.

A police spokesman said: "A post-mortem examination was carried out and proved to be inconclusive and is still subject to a toxicology report.

"However, the death is not being treated as suspicious. There will be an investigation to establish the facts and the matter will be referred to her Majesty's coroner."

Published Thursday January 15, 2004

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