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Body recovered from sea is identified

Published: 12:45 PM February 17, 2009    Updated: 5:31 PM December 11, 2020

A MAN found dead in the sea at Lyme Regis has been named as 78-year-old Harry Stewart Wheatley.

A MAN found dead in the sea at Lyme Regis has been named as 78-year-old Harry Stewart Wheatley.An RNLI lifeboat crew recovered his body from Pokers Pool, just outside the Cobb, last Thursday morning. An inquest has been opened and adjourned.

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