A 15 year old boy has been found dead at his home in his home in Balerno.
Emergency services were called to a house in Balerno’s Lovedale Road just after 9am on Tuesday.
The youngster who was a pupil at Balerno High School has not been named.
It is not known at this time how the teenager died but a police spokesman said the death was “unexplained” and being treated as “not suspicious”.
The police spokesman added: “Police in Edinburgh were called to an address in Lovedale Road, Balerno at around 9.05am on Tuesday 15 April following the sudden death of a 15-year-old boy.
“Enquiries are at a very early stage and the death is being treated as unexplained.”
John graduated from Telford College in 2010 with an HNC in Practical Journalism and since then he worked for the North Edinburgh News, The Southern Reporter, the Irish News Review and The Edinburgh Reporter. In addition he has been published in the Edinburgh Evening News and the Hibernian FC Programme.
