A MAN arrested on suspicion of the murder of Lithuanian man Jevgenij Pisciuliov has been released without charge.

The 37-year-old Bournemouth man was freed yesterday morning  after being questioned by detectives from Dorset Police’s major crimes investigation team.

Officers say their inquiries into how Mr Pisciuliov came to receive serious head and chest injuries are continuing.

DI Marcus Hester said: “We are continuing to investigate the circumstances surrounding his death.

“We are awaiting various forensic examinations which will assist us in taking this investigation forward.”

Mr Pisciuliov, a 32-year-old Lithuanian national living in Poole, was found in the stairwell of flats in Poole Road, Westbourne, on Saturday afternoon, above the Arrowedge retail chemists. He died later of head and chest injuries at Southampton General Hospital.

An inquest was opened and adjourned in Bournemouth on Monday and the cause of his death was given as subdural haemorrhage.

Mr Pisciuliov was identified through fingerprints.

The Westbourne community has this week been coming to terms with the fact that there is a murder investigation being carried out on their doorstep.

Ullas Patel, who owns the chemist and the flats, told the Daily Echo on Tuesday that Mr Pisciuliov did not live at the flats.

He said the man upstairs had “two or three visitors there every day”.

Mr Patel was working at the chemists with technician Amanda Wheatley, who said she heard a bang and sudden crash on Saturday.