Gold Coast police warn against bin diving after woman found dead hanging from charity bin at Burleigh Heads

A woman whose body was found in a charity bin died after she became wedged in the opening mechanism while trying to remove donated items, Gold Coast police say.

The 43-year-old woman’s body was found dangling from the bin outside a busy Burleigh Heads shopping centre on Monday morning.

Police are not treating the woman’s death as suspicious.

“It is what we class as a death by misadventure,” Superintendent Rhys Wildman said on Tuesday.

“It appears as though a 43-year-old woman has attempted to attain or remove some items from those charity bins.

“She has unfortunately…