Homicide detectives have been called in after a woman’s body was found in bushland in Sydney’s west on Sunday afternoon.
Officers attached to Nepean Police Area Command were called to a reserve off Irwin Street at Werrington, in Sydney’s west, about 1.15pm.
The area was sealed off and forensic experts sent in to analyse the scene.
‘A crime scene has been established and an investigation has commenced by Nepean detectives, who are being assisted by the State Crime Command’s Homicide Squad,’ said a police spokesman.
‘A canvass of the area is now being conducted by local police, assisted by PolAir.’
Nepean Police Area Commander, Detective Superintendent Trent King said a number of belongings were found near the woman, who is believed to be middle aged.
‘Other clothing items and other rubbish,’ he told a press conference on Sunday evening.
‘At this stage I’ve been informed that it was a woman. Potentially a middle-aged woman, but that’s still part of the investigation.’
A woman’s body was found at a reserve in Werrington, in west Sydney
Police have cordoned off the area and are analysing the scene
It’s believed the body belonged was a middle aged woman
The body was discovered by a passerby who saw the remains from a distance and called Triple Zero.
‘It’s a remote part of the reserve which backs onto sporting fields on one side and there is residential areas on the other,’ Supt. King said.
‘That’s where we will be concentrating our canvassing this afternoon and this evening to try and ascertain movements as well as anything untoward over the last period of time.’
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