A Sydney man will face court charged with murder after the “severely-emaciated” body of a woman he was caring for was discovered by paramedics, police say.
The sole carer of a woman has been charged with murder after her emaciated body was found in Sydney’s southwest, police say.
Paramedics went to a Greenacre home on Friday morning to respond to a medical episode.
They alerted police after they found what authorities described as “the body of a severely-emaciated 60-year-old woman.”
Officers arrived and arrested an 82-year-old man, the woman’s sole carer, taking him to Bankstown Police Station where they charged him with murder.
The Greenacre man was held in custody and expected to face Parramatta Bail Court on Saturday.
Australia has seen its highest number of homicide incidents in 15 years between July 1, 2019 and June 30, 2020, with 278 victims and 314 identified offenders, according to figures from the Australian Institute of Criminology.
The most prevalent form of abuse is neglect, experienced by 30.8 percent of people, followed by emotional abuse at 22.6 percent, and physical abuse at 5 percent.
