Woman found dead in Edgbaston tower block

A tower block in Edgbaston remains closed off to the public whilst West Midlands Police continue to investigate, after a woman was found dead in a flat this morning (January 14th).

Police received a 999 call shortly after 5.30am, after the body of a woman believed to be in her fifties - but yet to be identified - was discovered in a bedroom by a man.

A woman has been found dead this morning (January 14th) in a flat in an Edgbaston tower block.

Century Tower, in Dollery Drive off the Bristol Road, has been sealed off after officers were alerted just before 5.30am by a man who discovered the woman had collapsed in a bedroom.

She was pronounced dead at the scene and her death is being treated as unexplained.

Forensic experts will examine the location for evidence, while CCTV from the flats is being recovered and house-to-house enquiries are underway.