Body found near Opal Court

Police were called to Lancaster Road, near Opal Court, on the morning of the 10th December.


The death of a woman whose body was found near Leicester University’s Opal Court halls is not being treated as suspicious.

Police were called to the scene around 6:24AM on Tuesday morning.

Opal Court halls on Lancaster Road

Ruizhe Yan, a student at the University of Leicester who lives opposite the scene, said how he saw three police cars and one van outside the halls as the scene was forensically examined throughout the morning.

The body has not been formally identified.

Leicestershire Police are asking that anyone with information to call 101.