POLICE said tonight the man electrocuted at a disused quarry was 17.

Initial information was that the victim - who died after being electrocuted while using a cherry-picker at a former quarry in Brize Norton - was 29.

However a police spokesman said tonight the victim, who has not been identified, was 17.

She added police were called to the quarry off Shilton Lane at 3.50pm today.

She said: "He was taken by air ambulance to the John Radcliffe Hospital, where he was declared dead."

The spokesman confirmed the Health and Safety Executive was investigating.