Retired police officer found dead with hands and feet bound

Sascha Wil­son

A 70-year-old re­tired po­lice of­fi­cer was found dead in­side his Princes Town home on Sun­day, with his hands and feet bound to­geth­er.

The de­ceased has been iden­ti­fied as An­tho­ny Han­son, of Mar­cano Street West.

Ac­cord­ing to a po­lice re­port, of­fi­cers on mo­bile pa­trol re­ceived in­for­ma­tion around 1.30 pm and pro­ceed­ed to Han­son’s home.

There, they in­ter­viewed Han­son’s son, who re­port­ed that he ar­rived at the house around 11.30 am and ob­served that the back door on the east­ern side of the build­ing was open.

Up­on check­ing in­side, he found the house ran­sacked and sev­er­al items miss­ing.

He called out to his fa­ther but re­ceived no re­sponse. Fur­ther checks led him to his fa­ther’s bed­room on the east­ern side of the house, where he found him ly­ing on his back on the floor, with his hands and feet bound in a hog-tied po­si­tion. He was wear­ing short pants and was bare-backed.

The re­port stat­ed that the son last saw his fa­ther alive on Sep­tem­ber 28.

Po­lice cor­doned off the scene and con­tact­ed the rel­e­vant au­thor­i­ties.

The Dis­trict Med­ical Of­fi­cer vis­it­ed the scene, viewed the body and or­dered its re­moval pend­ing a post-mortem ex­am­i­na­tion at the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre.

Of­fi­cers at­tached to Homi­cide Re­gion Three and the South­ern Di­vi­sion al­so vis­it­ed the scene.