A RUSHDEN lorry driver, Mr. Frederick Herbert Warner, of 80, Tennyson Road, was found dead on Thursday morning in the cab of his lorry in a Southampton car park.

Aged 43 years, Mr. Warner was employed by the British Road Services at their depot at North End, Higham Ferrers. He left there on Wednesday morning.

Mr. Warner had arranged to meet another lorry driver from the same depot, Mr. Noel Murrell, of 5, Church Lane, Wymington, for breakfast in Southampton. When Mr. Murrell reached the car park, he found Mr. Warner dead, wrapped up, in the passenger seat of the driving cab.

A doctor who carried out an examination, expressed the view that he had died in his sleep.

A widow and a daughter, aged 11, are left.