Ex-Premier League player found dead in swimming pool
Former Premier League star George Baldock drowned in his Athens swimming pool, according to reports in Greece.
The ex-Sheffield United defender, 31, who recently joined Panathinaikos, was also dead for up to five hours before he was discovered.
Athens broadsheet Kathimerini claims that a post-mortem examination was completed in the Greek capital today and ‘drowning in water’ has been given as the cause of death by the medical examiner.
Toxicology tests taken during the autopsy – including whether alcohol was present in his system when he died – will take ‘several days’ to come back, it was reported.
But police in Athens have told MailOnline they have already ruled out any criminal activity – including any burglary – related to his sudden death at the age of 31 last night.
Mr Baldock was found unresponsive in his pool after his partner, who was in the UK, reportedly raised the alarm because he was not answering his phone.
