Australian Woman Living With Her Brother's Rotting Corpse Close To Five Years (Image: Jon Butterworth/ Unsplash)
An Australian woman spent at least five years sleeping next to her brother”s rotting corpse. She is from Geelong, a wealthy suburb of Newton, and it resides south-west of Melbourne.
Despite being an affluent environment, when the police officers entered the woman”s house they found rats, rotting food, garbage scattered all around the house, and human faeces and discovered her living with the rotting corpse.
The woman is in her 70s, and it was when Police arrested the woman in last December in a different matter, they came across the dead body. Police officials claimed that the woman may have slept next to the corpse close to two to five years. “It was a bloody skeleton they removed, not a body. How can someone be living with a dead body next door for five years and not a single person know about it?,” a neighbour told to a local Australian news media outlet, the Geelong Advertiser.
Adding further, the neighbour said: “They’ve tried to sweep this under the rug. We have been living next to a house of horrors.” Besides, neigbbour claimed that even though they have filed complaints about the house to multiple government departments over the years, no one gave attention to those issues.
The house is near to GMHBA stadium, home to Geelong Football Club and the busy cosmopolitan hub on Pakington Street. Some residents report that they finally seen the man alive in 2018.
A spokesperson of the Australian Department of Families, Fairness and Housing (DFFH) said that owing to growing concerns over the lack of contact, lack of access and the poor state of the property, several welfare checks had been conducted at this particular property since 2021.
They noticed the property to ensure a welfare check on the man when they found his corpse. “This is a tragic incident, Victoria Police said. “We send our sincerest condolences to the man’s family and friends,” the Police added. In last year, the woman was released without charge in connection to the man”s death.
(With inputs from News18)
