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Sept 2020
Harcourt Drive death 'not suspicious', say police
North Yorkshire Police has said it is not treating the death of a man on Harcourt Drive in Harrogate last month as suspicious.
Multiple police cars and ambulances attended the incident at around 7.15pm on Sunday, August 23.
One man was certified dead at the scene and another taken to hospital.
Police subsequently cautioned a 42-year-old man for distributing “distressing images” of the incident on social media.
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Now officers have confirmed they are not treating the death as suspicious and a file is being prepared for the coroner’s office.
Detective inspector Steve Menzies, senior investigating officer at North Yorkshire Police, said:
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