Vic: Elderly man may have stabbed himself: police

AAP General News (Australia)
12-08-2009
Vic: Elderly man may have stabbed himself: police

MELBOURNE, Dec 8 AAP - Homicide detectives are awaiting further test results on the
body of a 70-year-old man they believe may have died outside his home from self-inflicted
stab wounds.

The man's body was found at the corner of Catherine and Fowler streets in bayside Chelsea
shortly after 10pm (AEDT) on Monday.

He was only three blocks from the local police station.

Ambulance crews attended and treated the man for possible stab wounds, but he died
and a crime scene was established.

Officers believe that he wasn't a victim of an attack.

"We're investigating the possibility he died of self-inflicted wounds," a police spokeswoman
said.

But the post-mortem examination, conducted on Tuesday afternoon, was not conclusive,
Victoria Police spokeswoman Marika Fengler said.

Homicide detectives remained on the case, she said.

"Investigators are still yet to establish the circumstances surrounding the death and
are awaiting further results from the post-mortem," she said.

A neighbour told 3AW radio that the man was very friendly and loved working in his garden.

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