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Woman found floating dead in sewage works
1:02pm Thursday 11th September 2008 in Tooting & Mitcham United By Guardian reporter
Police are investigating the death of a woman found floating at a sewage works
Police have launched an inquiry in to the death of a Wandsworth woman found floating in a sewage tank two days after leaving a Tooting hospital.
Kaylene Lyle, 43, was found dead and partially clothed at the Abbey Wood sewage works on Friday.
A postmortem examination found Ms Lyle drowned but also received extensive injuries from the works’ machinery, including wounds to her neck.
Police said Ms Lyle ran away from a Tooting hospital in "an agitated state".
Ms Lyle was seen on September 3 in the casualty department of St George's Hospital in Tooting.
Police are treating her death as unexplained but have not launched a murder inquiry.
Officers were called by a member of staff at Thames Water Sewage Works in Belvedere Road who had found a body among the machinery.
Ms Lyle was pronounced dead at the scene.
“Kaylene had also received injuries consistent with being inflicted by machinery. She also had injuries to her neck,” a Met spokesman said.
“We are still trying to ascertain how Kaylene established the injuries to her neck. As part of this process we are taking the advice of Health and Safety Executive and Thames Water about the effect of gases within the sewerage network on the body.”
“Kaylene attended the casualty department of St George's Hospital, Tooting, on the morning of Wednesday September 3.
“She was in an agitated state and staff sought to secure her for her own safety but she ran away before they could do so. From there, we know she sought refuge in a nearby house, but left it via the back garden.
“We have now established that she walked from there along the railway line and entered a culvert under a railway bridge on Waterfall Terrace.
“The culvert leads to a larger section of sewerage network, which then leads to the treatment plant in Abbey Wood.
“We have recovered jewellery belonging to Kaylene was recovered inside the culvert.
“We do not believe it was forcibly removed.”
Comments(1)
Fred1
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12:05pm Fri 12 Sep 08
I notice that other media sources are saying that police are treating this as a murder enquiry.
The idea that she may have been washed along in the sewers to the treatment facility tank sounds plausible to me. However, how do the police know that she went into a particular private house? Did the occupier say so? Or a neighbour? Was it a detached house or a terraced house? Was it occupied or boarded up?
You see, I'm wondering if anyone was chasing her. If she honestly believed that there was someone she really needed to get away from who was capable of tracking her down wherever she went, then it would explain a lot. It would explain why she went to the hospital as an A&E patient in the first place, but then seemed agitated and flighty when she was there. It would also explain why she might think that running away from the hospital into a random private house, and then onto the railway line, and then into a culvert, might be an appropriate thing to do.
Question is, who *was* that person who was chasing her? Or was it really just a paranoid delusion? Did someone actually chase her through the house, onto the railway line and into the culvert?
Even if not, then why on earth would she have been that scared?
I do hope that the thing that she was scared of isn't something that the rest of us need to be scared of as well.
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