Psychics used to probe death

A POLICE force has admitted following up leads supplied by “mystics” after a man’s death.

Dyfed-Powys Police investigated claims purportedly from the spirit world when Carlos Assaf was discovered suspended from a weights bench at his home in March by a neighbour.

The family of the 32-year-old from Lampeter, Ceredigion, west Wales, had urged officers to follow-up a theory from psychics that he had been killed by gangsters.

The Cambrian News said that police subsequently scoured pubs called the Red Lion from Burry Port to Tregaron and carried out inquiries in Manchester to try to substantiate the story.

The newspaper said that during the inquest it emerged that mediums contacted by Assaf’s family claimed to have spoken to his ghost, which said he had been strangled after being forced to drink petrol and bleach.

A postmortem failed to find any evidence of such substances in Assaf’s body and a verdict of suicide was recorded by Ceredigion coroner Peter Brunton.