Tasmania Police investigating a woman's death in a house in New Town, believed to have occurred several weeks ago, and treating it as suspicious due to mental health concerns raising suspicion.
Tasmania Police says investigations are ongoing to determine the cause of a woman's death in New Town . The body of a woman who had been dead for weeks has been found at a house in the Hobart suburb of New Town .
Tasmania Police says the woman has not been formally identified, but it is believed she was 61 years old and lived at the house. The body of a woman who police believe has been dead for weeks has been found in a house in Hobart's north, with police treating her death as suspicious.
Tasmania Police Detective Inspector David Gill said over the past week, family members had raised concerns about the mental health of a man in his 50's who lived at the house. This prompted police, along with staff from a mental health acute care team, to visit the address on Lissadell Court in New Town on Saturday morning. He was then taken to the Royal Hobart Hospital for mental health treatment.
Emergency services were then called back to the property at about 4 o'clock the same day.
"It wasn't till later that day that another person attended the address to visit and found the body of the deceased woman on the floor," Inspector Gill said. He said police were treating the woman's death as suspicious.
"At this stage, we are treating the woman's death as suspicious; however, we are keeping an open mind as to the possibility that the woman's death may be a result of natural causes," Inspector Gill said. "That alone is sufficient to class it as a suspicious death and require further investigation. "Police said the woman has not been formally identified, but it is believed she was in her 60s and lived at the house.
Police believe the man and the woman had lived at the property together for some time, and had been known to police dating back sixteen years in relation to neighbourhood disputes. The man in his 50's has since been cleared by medical staff at the Royal Hobart Hospital and is in police custody. The crime scene is expected to stay in place as police continue to investigate until Monday afternoon. "It's chaotic in relation to being cluttered. "
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