Cooktown Queensland woman found dead in grassland by neighbour mowing lawn
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Neighbor mowing lawn finds woman, 38, dead in grass, as police investigate ‘suspicious’ death
- Woman found in the grass in Cooktown, Far North Queensland
- The police want to talk to the people, some of whom are outside.
Police are investigating the suspicious death of a woman whose body was found by a neighbor mowing his lawn.
The neighbor found the woman’s body discovered in the grass in Cooktown, Far North Queensland, around 5pm on Monday afternoon.
Officers believe the 38-year-old man likely died Sunday night.
Detective Inspector Jason Chetham said the Bradbury Street properties were a continuation of one another and there was no fence between them.
The woman was found on the lawn of a property in Bradbury Street, Cooktown, around 5pm on Monday afternoon.
Detective Inspector Jason Chetham said the incident was a “sudden death” and police are unsure of the “full circumstances at this time” (an aerial shot of Cooktown is pictured)
“We are trying to narrow it down now to a firmer time and date,” Insp Chetham said.
He said officers had been called to an area near the woman’s address Sunday night after reports of a disturbance that included shouting and loud arguing.
It is not known if there is a connection.
“It’s a sudden death and we still don’t know the full circumstances at this point.”
“We have put all of our specialist resources into an effort to determine exactly what happened,” Det-Insp Chetham added.
Police want to speak to several people in connection with the death, some of whom are not in Cooktown.
Police were called to the area the day before the woman’s body was found with reports of an argument, but it is not known if the two incidents are connected.
“There is one person we want to speak to, a potential witness, who is at sea, and hopefully it will be completed today,” Det Insp Chetham told reporters on Friday.
The woman’s partner is among the people police speak to.
On Thursday, detectives with the Cooktown Criminal Investigation Branch were on the Bradbury St.
Police are asking for any information on how the woman may have died or any footage that may exist from the area around the time in question.