Nabard Amin found him as he opened up early this morning. The man looked like he was asleep, his body lying on a grass verge strewn with rubbish and old car parts, off one of Manchester's busiest roads.
Nabard alerted the emergency services but the man, who has not yet been named, was declared dead at the scene. "He looked like he was asleep," a shocked and upset Nabard told the Manchester Evening News . "I was shouting him but he never said anything. I shouted my uncle, he came over, and we kept shouting and nothing.
"Maybe he is coming here at night, as in the day I would have seen him. It is worrying. If he had been in the car this morning we may not have seen him and not have found him for who knows, weeks, months.The man's cause of death has not yet been disclosed although police say there are believed to be no suspicious circumstances. The incident has caused significant shock and upset among both local politicians and those living nearby.
"No one in our city should be sleeping in these conditions. The Council provide support to people facing homelessness and along with the GM Mayor, have worked on the Bed Every Night scheme which can provide urgent support for those who need it. "No one should be living like this, how many more people are going to lose their lives? The cost of living is making it harder and harder for residents to keep a roof over their heads.
"We have seen people sleeping underneath the railway arches before or in tents on the grass verge on the other side of Hyde Road but never there. It's certainly not the sort of place you would want to be sleeping. No one should have like that. It's very concerning."