Industrial estate workers have spoken out after a grim discovery saw a man's body unearthed in a freezer at a recycling plant.

Baydon Road Industrial Estate workers in Exhall spoke to CoventryLive, our sister title, after the elderly body was uncovered.

The body was found on Friday afternoon after being moved from an address in Birmingham, it is believed.

West Midlands Police have arrested a man and subsequently bailed him following the news.

One worker said: "It's shocking to have this happen anywhere, let alone down the road.

"We are just thanking our lucky stars it didn't happen here, but we wouldn't want this to happen to anyone.

"There was a police presence and forensics here at the time, but other than that we didn't see anything."

Another worker at a premises near the yard said: "We saw a police car and we were surprised to hear what had happened, but that was about it, we are carrying on as usual.

"You see these things on the news more and more nowadays, it's the way the world is."

Other workers on the industrial estate described their disbelief after hearing the news, which one described as "like something from a mafia film".

One said: "We heard the body was stuffed inside a fridge at first.

"But it looks like it was found in a chest freezer and as the workmen were unloading it at the skip place it opened up and they found the body.

"They have two sites around here which deal with vans and lorries from house clearances for councils as well as unloading commercial skips.

"It's like something from a mafia film and not what you'd expect to happen on an industrial estate in Coventry."

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Another worker added: "The place was swarming with police the other day but it's been quiet since.

"We wondered what was going on but when we heard it was a body found in a freezer, we couldn't quite believe it.

"It's a really horrible thing to have happened. I know some of the lads up there but they've been told not to say anything. It must have been awful."