UK woman killed in suspected murder-suicide

Woman and man found in Sydney

A British woman in her twenties has been found dead alongside a man in his thirties in what police believe was a murder-suicide.

The body of the woman, who has not been named, was found with that of a man at a flat in the Newtown suburb of Sydney, the New South Wales Police Force said.

According to reports the pair were a couple who had lived in the flat, which is above a restaurant on a road lined with bars and shops, for several months.

Emergency services were called to the scene three miles south-west of the city centre at around 5.30pm on Friday after concerns were raised for the welfare of a man and a woman at the property.

“Police attended and discovered the bodies of a woman, aged in her twenties, and a man, aged in his thirties,” the force said.

Police and detectives from the state’s homicide squad launched an investigation and officials from the British embassy have been in contact with the woman’s family.

The nationality and identity of the man have not been released, although he is understood not to be from the UK.

Neighbour Scott Haggarty told the Australian Daily Telegraph he last saw them arrive home together on Wednesday afternoon.

The couple, who kept themselves to themselves, “looked happy”.

“They looked like a couple who worked in the bars and were on holidays here,” he said. “They just looked like a regular couple, I never heard an argument or anything.”

A police source told the Press Association the woman is thought to have been the victim of a murdersuicide.