{"id":675918,"date":"2026-05-17T02:55:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T02:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/675918\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T02:55:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T02:55:11","slug":"man-in-custody-after-suspicious-death-of-woman-at-new-town-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/675918\/","title":{"rendered":"Man in custody after suspicious death of woman at New Town home"},"content":{"rendered":"

A man is in police custody after a woman was found dead inside a New Town home, with Tasmania Police treating the death as suspicious.<\/p>\n

Emergency services were called to a residence on Lissadell Court, north of Hobart, around 4pm on Saturday, where they found the body of a woman believed to be in her 60s.<\/p>\n

A man in his 50s has been arrested.<\/p>\n

Detective Inspector David Gill said the woman was yet to be formally identified.<\/p>\n

\"\"Emergency services were called to a home on Lissadell Court in New Town yesterday<\/p>\n

\u201cA formal identification is yet to be conducted, however, we believe the deceased is a woman aged in her 60s,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Gill said the cause of death had not been established.<\/p>\n

\"\"Detective Inspector David Gill said the death was being treated as suspicious. Image \/ Pulse (File)<\/p>\n

\u201cPolice investigations are ongoing to determine the cause of the woman\u2019s death, however at this stage we are treating the death as suspicious,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Forensic officers remained at the address on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n

\u201cPolice, including forensic services, remain at the scene today conducting investigations,\u201d Gill said.<\/p>\n

Police are urging anyone with information to call 131 444 and quote report 805693 or to contact Crime Stoppers Tasmania anonymously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man is in police custody after a woman was found dead inside a New Town home, with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675919,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-675918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=675918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}