An Addiscombe woman has told an inquest that she found her brother hanging by the neck with his hands tied behind his back.
Westminster Coroner's Court was told last Thursday (February 7) how Roy Streeter, 32, was found strung up in his bedsit by his sister Jenny, of Dickinson Place, Woodside.
She told the court how she found her brother dead in the bathroom of his Balham home after collecting a key to get into the flat when there was no answer at the door.
She said Mr Streeter had been sexually abused as a child and heard voices in his head. The coroner, Dr Paul Knapman, criticised murder squad officers who were "too busy" to investigate the case as murder. Dr Knapman said that if a man's hands were tied there were "broadly two possibilities" suicide or murder. A man is found hanged with his hands tied behind his back, you call CID, and they say: We are a bit busy.'
"Is that the situation?" he asked PC Jonathan Ramsden. The officer could not explain how his sergeant decided that Mr Streeter could have tied the knots behind his back himself.
PC Ramsden said a police surgeon did inspect the body, and the surgeon
believed he tied his hands himself.
The scenario that PC Ramsden believed, was that Mr Streeter stood on a crate, slipped his head in a noose, then kicked the crate away.
Dr Knapman said he "felt a measure of discomfiture" at the evidence and adjourned the case, which was due to continue yesterday (February 12).
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