Man found dead in ladies’ toilet wall ‘climbed inside and got stuck’

The incident occurred in the Core shopping centre in downtown
Calgary

A man whose body was found in a wall behind a
ladies’ toilet died after climbing through a vent to get inside,
Canadian police have said.

On Monday, a maintenance worker at the Core shopping centre in
Calgary was called to reports of a defective flush in the ladies’
toilets.

Upon removing a panel in the wall behind the faulty toilet, he
made the unnerving discovery that there was a human body inside the
wall.

The deceased, an unidentified man in his twenties, had
been inside the wall since Friday evening, CBC reports.

Detectives believe the man removed a vent on top
of the “pony wall” – a hollow unit which conceals the toilet
mechanisms – and climbed inside on Friday evening, before becoming
stuck.

However, his motives for doing so remain a
mystery. The two-metre high wall does not connect to the ceiling
and has no access to the rest of the building.

Extracting the body took “several hours”, the Globe and Mail reports, during which shoppers
in a nearby food court dined “metres away” from a procession of
police officers, firefighters and officials from the medical
examiner’s office.

Police found no evidence of foul play and
believe the man acted alone. The death has been ruled accidental
and non-criminal, meaning the identity of the deceased will not be
released to the public.