Police have completed their enquiries into the discovery of blood-stained clothing on Corstorphine Hill earlier this week.

Around 9.35am on Tuesday, 20 October, officers were called to Corstorphine Hill after a blood-stained item of clothing, understood to be a child’s hat was found by a member of the public.

The item was sent to the lab for analysis and it has now been confirmed that the blood is from an animal.

No criminality is involved and police enquiries are now complete.

Officers would like to thank members of the public who contacted police with information regarding this matter.

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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.