Surrey Police is appealing for the public’s help to identify a man whose body was found in January by releasing a digital portrait.

A digital image of the man, whose body was found in January, has been created by a forensic artist to generate a visual representation of what he may have looked like.

The man has been described as:
- Black
- 5ft 6 tall with a slim build
- Aged between 50-65
- Short grey afro-style hair with grey stubble
- Wearing a black pork-pie style hat, grey jacket, white shirt and black trousers
- Was of an untidy appearance
- He wore an elastic band around his right-middle finger and number of elastic bands around his wrists.

Officers were called to the B2208 Croydon Road on Wednesday, 11 January where they found a body. Enquiries have established that he passed away at the same location earlier that day.

The death is not being treated as suspicious but officers have exhausted attempts to trace his identity.

Anyone with any information is asked to contact 101, quoting crime reference number 45170003605 or you can use the online reporting system found at https://report.police.uk/ and enter the reference number in the ‘Additional information’ section.

Note: It must be noted that this postmortem facial depiction is NOT an accurate portrait of the face of the deceased in life, but rather an artistic representation of the face based on the available image and experience of postmortem processes. Inconsistencies between the depiction in this report and the face of the individual in life are, therefore, inevitable. However, this image was an attempt to represent the face of the deceased, in relation to proportions and morphology, to produce a recognition reaction from the public and assist the investigation.

www.missingpersons.police.uk/en/case/17-000735