Man's body lay undiscovered in apartment for 10 weeks; found only after neighbours complained of smell

The body lay in a Melbourne CBD apartment for 10 weeks. Photo / 123RF

A man lay dead for up to 10 weeks in a building frequented by drug dealers and sex workers before his decomposed body was found, the Herald Sun reports.

Neighbours made complaints for weeks to their landlords about a foul stench lingering throughout their Flinders Street apartment complex, the newspaper says.

Police escorted a landlord to an apartment complex on Flinders Street on Monday afternoon and found a man so badly decomposed they were unable to identify his skin colour.

The Sunday Herald Sun reports neighbour Tom Peric, 23, saw police arrived at the building and the crime scene.

"He was laying there on the middle of the floor, all his mail was piled up next to him," he
told the newspaper.

"The area outside his door smelt really bad. It freaked me out just to see a person dead, lying there."

The apartment complex is a mixture of public housing and residential housing.

Next-door neighbour James Rawlins moved in to the building a week before the dead man's body was found.

"Police said the man had been there for up to 10 weeks before he was found.

Other neighbours who wished not to be named said the building was full of "shady behaviour" including frequent drug deals, homeless people, violence and sex workers.

This article was first published by News Limited's Sunday Herald Sun.