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09-09-2006, 08:51 AM
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A New Zealand man may have been lying dead in his Sydney apartment for nearly two years, a report on Saturday suggested.
Mitchell Nodier, in his 50s, was found dead and badly decomposed when police broke into a three-storey Housing Department unit in The Rocks area of central Sydney on Friday morning, the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper reported. Police said the remains were lying on the floor and an autopsy would be performed over the weekend.
Resident Ron Quinn said he had last seen Mr Nodier nearly two years ago.
"The last time I saw Mitch was about 21 months ago when I lent him $20 to buy seed for the lorikeets that he fed from his window.
"I started slipping notes under his door asking for the money back but never saw him again."
Mr Quinn said Mr Nodier's letters had piled up in the foyer but neither he nor other residents of the seven-unit block thought it was unusual, thinking Mr Nodier might have "gone bush" or have been in jail - he had told them he had been to jail before.
"You know, the windows have been open up there the entire time and the lights have been on while he had been gone," Mr Quinn said.
The discovery follows a June Housing Department audit of 60,000 tenant which found others dead in their homes.
NZPA
2 Bloody years? you think that someone would have taken the time to check on him....
A New Zealand man may have been lying dead in his Sydney apartment for nearly two years, a report on Saturday suggested.
Mitchell Nodier, in his 50s, was found dead and badly decomposed when police broke into a three-storey Housing Department unit in The Rocks area of central Sydney on Friday morning, the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper reported. Police said the remains were lying on the floor and an autopsy would be performed over the weekend.
Resident Ron Quinn said he had last seen Mr Nodier nearly two years ago.
"The last time I saw Mitch was about 21 months ago when I lent him $20 to buy seed for the lorikeets that he fed from his window.
"I started slipping notes under his door asking for the money back but never saw him again."
Mr Quinn said Mr Nodier's letters had piled up in the foyer but neither he nor other residents of the seven-unit block thought it was unusual, thinking Mr Nodier might have "gone bush" or have been in jail - he had told them he had been to jail before.
"You know, the windows have been open up there the entire time and the lights have been on while he had been gone," Mr Quinn said.
The discovery follows a June Housing Department audit of 60,000 tenant which found others dead in their homes.
NZPA
2 Bloody years? you think that someone would have taken the time to check on him....