Body of man found by workers by M1 is identified

Police said they were trying to establish a cause of death (pictured is the stretch of the M1 shortly after the body was found)

The body of a man found by road workers in undergrowth next to a motorway has been identified.

On 13 January, Hertfordshire Police was called to a section of the M1 near Watford between junctions five and six.

The force said he was a man aged in his 60s.

A police spokesperson said their thoughts were with the family at this "difficult time".

The death was not being treated as suspicious but the force said it was trying to establish a cause of death.