Overview
- In Hobart’s New Town, police and an acute mental‑health team visited a house on Saturday, spoke to a man at the door without entering the cluttered home, detained him for assessment, and a relative later found a woman’s body inside.
- Police believe the woman, thought to be 61, had been dead for weeks, so they are treating the case as suspicious while keeping open the possibility of natural causes ahead of a Monday autopsy.
- The man in his 50s was cleared by hospital staff and is now in police custody with no charges laid as detectives continue interviews and forensic work at the scene.
- In a separate case in Campania on Friday, detectives say evidence points to a family‑violence murder‑suicide in which a man appears to have killed a woman before ending his own life.
- Police say the Campania man phoned a relative before first responders found him dead outside and the woman inside the home, and they report no ongoing threat to the wider community.