Accused killer’s ‘erratic’ behaviour
DETECTIVES investigating last week’s Flinders St rampage in Melbourne have been interviewing neighbours of suspect Saeed Noori.
Investigators arrived at the Heidelberg West street, in which Noori has been living with his wife and two-year-old son, as they piece together the circumstances leading to Thursday’s shocking incident.
The Gold Coast Bulletin can reveal a local resident tipped off police about Noori’s strange behaviour in the past few weeks after recognising him in media coverage.
The neighbour, who did not wish to be named, said the family had moved into the public housing unit after taking it over from a man who appeared to be Noori’s father.
“When the unit was first built, it was occupied by a 72-year-old man from Afghanistan who we knew only as Noori,” he said.
“After about six weeks, he said he had to go and that his son would be living there … a day later, Saeed turns up with a wife and child.”
The neighbour said the 32-year-old Noori – who has been charged with 18 counts of attempted murder and one of conduct endangering life – had acted erratically at times.
“A week or two ago, I could hear him talking to someone in another language almost all day for three days,” he said.
“You could tell it was a heated discussion.
“Sometimes it was loud music 100 times a week … another time we heard his wife crying and I knew he wasn’t home because we saw him walking back from the shops not long after.”
Residents said the family rarely spoke to other people in the street.