Murder inquiry launched over death of man in London's Hyde Park

Police are treating the death of a man close to a tourist hotspot in central London as murder.

Officers were called to Hyde Park at around 5.50am on Friday after a member of the public found a man with injuries.

The man was dead when officers arrived at the scene, and detectives from the homicide and major crime command investigating the death are now treating it as murder, Scotland Yard said.