A 26-year-old man was found hanged in a communal stairway last night.
Police were called by the ambulance service to a property in Barking Road, East Ham, at 11.12pm following the grim discovery.
The man was pronounced dead at the scene.
A post-mortem was due to be carried out yesterday.
Police officers are investigating the death, which is currently being treated as unexplained.
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