A body washed up on the beach this morning and a police spokeswoman was quoted as saying “… it’s not clear at this stage if the death is suspicious.”

To say a death is not suspicious is police and media-speak for the-dead-person-killed-themselves, either intentionally or accidentally. The reporting body advises the readers with jargon that no other party was involved.

There is an investigation, the police do what they can to establish there were no suspicious circumstances. I spent hours at a police station, after Mottsu’s body was found in the river, recounting my tearful story before it was established that there were no suspicious circumstances surrounding his death by suicide.

Distressing, and I imagine less distressing for me than he.