Police scour London's Dorchester hotel after man found dead in room
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Version 0 of 1. Detectives have been examining the five-star Dorchester hotel in London after housekeepers found a man dead in his room. He was a wealthy Arab guest, reports said. Two men have been arrested and bailed in connection with the incident, although Scotland Yard said the death of the man in his 40s was still being treated as unexplained. Police were called to the hotel in Mayfair on Friday evening after receiving reports that a man was unresponsive in one of the rooms. Ambulance crews arrived but he was pronounced dead at the scene. A witness told the Sun: “The hotel was crawling with detectives. It was like a scene out of an Agatha Christie film.” On Sunday, police were awaiting the results of a postmortem, including toxicology tests, to determine the cause of the man’s death. The two men arrested were questioned at central London police stations, and were bailed until June. The pair are aged 31 and 50 and are both from west London, according to MailOnline. The Dorchester styles itself as “one of the world’s most iconic hotels” and is a favourite choice of celebrities, world leaders and royalty. Rates vary by season, but start at £445 a night for a double room and rise to to £4,335 for the most expensive suite. A spokeswoman for the hotel said: “With regret we can confirm the death of a guest at the hotel on Friday, 1 May. “We are unable to provide any further details at this time as the matter is in the hands of the police. Our thoughts are with the family and friends of the deceased.” Last year the hotel was targeted twice in smash-and-grab raids by moped-riding gangs, who broke into display cabinets and stole watches and jewellery worth hundreds of thousands of pounds |