MYSTERY surrounds a police crime scene at a Huddersfield care home.
A body was carried out of Ashleigh Care Home in Newsome yesterday morning.
Scenes-of-crime officers were seen on site and police sealed off an alley leading to a stairwell behind the home.
But yesterday police said the death was unrelated to their activity in the area.
They refused to comment on what they were investigating.
Staff from the Stile Common Road care home also declined to comment.
Residents living near the home said there had been police activity since the early morning.
One, who did not want to be named, said she had seen a police car and an officer standing guard when she went out just after 7am.
She said: “I came back at quarter to nine and there was a police van there.
“I was going over to ask what was going on when I saw them carrying a body out down the steps on a stretcher.
“They put it into a private ambulance, the type that goes to the morgue.”
A police spokesman confirmed their had been a sudden death at the home, but said it was nothing to do with their inquiries.
Another neighbour said a uniformed officer had been seen guarding by the taped off stairwell at Stile Common Road.
A Pcso was also seen talking to residents on Newsome Road.
A police scientific support officer was seen leaving the care home at 2pm.
Ashleigh Court is one of a dozen care homes owned by Halifax based Eldercare.
Their other homes in Huddersfield include Cowlersley Court and Sun Woodhouse home at Fartown.
