AN INQUEST will be opened after a man died in a cafe on Saturday afternoon.

The unnamed man, 45, was at Deli 37 in High Street, Billericay, when he became ill.

Police and ambulance crews were called.

An Essex Police spokesman said: “Police were contacted just before 2.40pm following reports of a man falling while at a cafe in Billericay. The man sadly died despite the efforts of paramedics.

The death is not being treated as suspicious and a file will be passed to the coroner.”