A WOMAN has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a man was found dead in a house last week.

Paramedics called in police after they attended a house in Lower Dicker in the early hours of Tuesday, August 3.

A 48-year-old man was declared dead at the house on the A22 near Eastbourne.

Sussex Police returned to the scene on Saturday - ten days after the suspected murder - and have been guarding it ever since.

A spokesman for the force confirmed a woman, also 48-year-old, was arrested on suspicion of murder and released under investigation.

The pair are said to be known to another.

A spokesman said: ""Forensics examinations of the scene are ongoing as we seek to establish the circumstances of the man’s death," the spokesman said.

"The man's death is being treated an unexplained and we are keeping an open mind."