A MAN's body has been discovered in a Hemlington property after police were called to the area on Wednesday evening.

Cass House Road was cordoned off as a dozen police and fire vehicles attended the scene of the incident.

A spokeswoman for Cleveland Police said: “Police were called to Fonteyn Court in Hemlington at 6.33pm where the body of a 40-year-old man was discovered.

“Police are not treating his death as suspicious.”