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Tenant lay dead in flat for more than 10 days

20.04.06
By Jarrod Booker

Alan Fraser Sellwood lived a quiet life and kept to himself. So no one bothered to check when the 63-year-old beneficiary stopped appearing from his small, run-down Timaru flat.

Mr Sellwood lay dead in his bedroom for more than 10 days before he was discovered by a friend on Tuesday night, police said.

Tenants living in the same complex had noticed a strange smell in the last week but could not find the source of the odour.

(...Read rest of article at the New Zealand Herald)