A FARMER has been discovered dead with gunshots wounds.
He was named yesterday as Alan Paul Shardlaw, 46, of Mortar Pit Farm, Sneatonthorpe, near Whitby, in North Yorkshire.
Police said a gun had been found alongside his body at the farm.
There were no suspicious circumstances.
The North Yorkshire East coroner, Michael Oakley, has been informed.
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