Swimming pool man may have been victim of sexual assault

TWO experts yesterday suggested that a man found floating in the swimming pool at television entertainer Michael Barrymore’s home may have been the victim of a sexual assault.

One of the pathologists at the inquest on Stuart Lubbock also suggested he could have been asphyxiated.

A post-mortem examination carried out on the 31-year-old after he was found at 50-year-old Barrymore’s home in Roydon, Essex, on March 31 last year gave the official cause of death as drowning, the inquest in Epping was told.