A man has been arrested after police discovered his female housemate’s body at a home following reports of a domestic incident.
Emergency services were called to the home on Clements Street in Russell Lea, in Sydney’s inner west, to reports of a woman ‘screaming and needing help’ just after 11am on Thursday.
Officers found a woman believed to be aged in her 50s, who is yet to be identified, dead at the scene.
A 42-year-old man was arrested at the scene and taken to Burwood Police Station where he is assisting police with inquiries.
Burwood Commander Superintendent Christine McDonald said he had only been living at the home for about two or three weeks.
She added the alleged victim and three other housemates had moved into the house about five to six weeks ago.
A neighbour told Daily Mail Australia that they hadn’t seen who was living there at the time but had heard yelling coming the home in recent weeks.
‘It’s a shame it wasn’t reported to police sooner,’ she said.
A man has been arrested after police (pictured at the scene) discovered the body of a woman at a home in Sydney’s Inner-West following a reported ‘domestic incident’
Officers have established a crime scene after they found a woman believed to be aged in her 50s, who is yet to be identified, dead at the scene
Police will allege the woman died from a stab wound to the neck but had also suffered ‘significant and multiple injuries to her upper body’, Ms McDonald said.
She added that all five tenants were at the time during the attack and are ‘upset’
‘They are … upset. The scene that police arrived to, it is very clear that is a homicide. You can imagine if you were known to the victim, you would be extremely distressed,’ Ms McDonald told reporters.
‘The man that we have assisting police has a non-violent, traffic and drug related history.’
She confirmed the woman and the alleged attacker were ‘not in an intimate relationship’.
A number of items were recovered from the footpath as police cordoned off the street for forensic police and detectives to investigate the scene.
A senior police officer described the scene inside the red brick house as among the worst he’d seen, reported the paper.
Police were seen door-knocking neighbours in the street on Thursday afternoon.
Anyone with information has been urged to contact police.
A 42-year-old man who was known to the deceased and understood to be her flatmate was arrested at the scene
