KRISTIAN DIGBY FOUND DEAD IN LONDON FLAT
Published: March 1, 2010

BBC television presenter Kristian Digby has been found dead at a flat in east London, police have said.

The 32-year-old presenter was best known for the BBC One property programme To Buy or Not To buy.

Mr Digby, who co-presented the show, was pronounced dead at the scene when ambulance services arrived at his flat in Richford Road, Newham, earlier.

Police sources described the circumstances surrounding his death on Monday morning as "unexplained".

His body was found at about 0745 GMT on Monday. His next of kin have been informed.

A spokesman for the Metropolitan Police said: "Police were called to reports of a body of a man in his 30s found at an address in Richford Road, E15.

"Ambulance services attended and life was pronounced extinct."

The property expert, who was born into a family of property developers and worked in several property shows including Double Agents, Living In The Sun, House Swap and Buy It, Sell It, Bank It, was also a film director.

His short film Last Train to Demise won the Melbourne Film Festival Best Student Film in 1998 and Words of Deception won him a junior Bafta in 1997.