Detectives hunting for the killer of a homeless man who died violently behind a shop on Dominion Rd want to speak with a man identified on security cameras.
Police say when they visited 49-year-old homicide victim Maqbool Hussain in his temporary Balmoral squat the last evening he was seen alive another, unknown man was with him.
Two officers, accompanied by two Asian Safety Patrol volunteers, were in the area at 6.30pm on Saturday March 22, as part of a specific property crime prevention operation and were asked by a local business operator to engage with Mr Hussain about recent behaviour in the neighbourhood.
Detective Inspector Chris Cahill says the officers and volunteers have provided valuable information to the investigation team and confirmed Mr Hussain was in the company of another, unknown man, at the time he was visited.