A murder investigation is launched when a woman in her 50s is found dead in northern Brisbane
- The body of a woman in her fifties was found
- She was discovered in a home in north Brisbane
- Police are treating her death as suspicious
A woman in her 50s was found dead in a house in the city after reports of disturbances.
Police were alerted at around 12:50 p.m. Thursday at a home in Kallangur, north Brisbane, where the woman’s body was found.
Detectives declared the house a crime scene and are investigating the circumstances of her death, which they consider suspicious.
A 36-year-old man is assisting police in the investigation.
“The 56-year-old woman who was found dead was known to the man now in custody and was related,” Inspector Ben Fadian told reporters on Thursday.
“There was no domestic violence warrant against the couple, but the police had been at the address before on other matters.”
Inspector Fadian said aid workers witnessed a “confrontational scene”.
The body of a woman in her 50s was found in a house in Kallangur (above) after reports of a disturbance
“A member of the public called triple zero and detectives knocked on the door and took statements from neighbors,” he said.
Inspector Fadian said the man who assisted police was known to the woman but did not live at the address.
“The female person and the person assisting the police were known to each other, they are related, they have no relationship, there is no DV warrant,” he said.
Whether they were mother and son, he does not want to say.
“I can’t confirm that, the matter is still being investigated, the nature of the relationship is still being investigated.”
Police asked anyone with information or dash cam footage from Duffield Road and Winter Road between 9am and 1pm on Thursday to come forward.
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