This is a bit of a strange one.. thanks to welkin for bringing it to my attention, I'd somehow never heard of it.
Mutilated body on beach identified
SYDNEY. Sunday. ''Police have identified the badly mutilated body of a man washed up on Sydney's Curl Curl beach last Thursday.
He was Robert David Hiscock, 53. formerly of Tamworth, married, with an adult family.
Police said last night that Mr Hiscock had been a patient at a private hospital in Sydney's western suburbs until he disappeared last Wednesday morning.
Mr Hiscock was last seen alive by a taxidriver. who drove him to Strathfield station at 10am on Wednesday. A surfboard rider found his body washed up on Curl Curl beach on Thursday afternoon.
His throat had been cut, his tongue cut out and his ears cut off.
Police are trying to trace his movements between 10 a.m on Wednesday and 3.30 p.m on Thursday, when the body was found.
It is known that he frequented the Manly area and had been employed as a cleaner at the North Head Army barracks and the Balgowlah telephone exchange.
When last seen. Mr Hiscock was wearing black trousers, white shirt, dark jerkin with over-check, and possibly a dark coat.
He was carrying a large briefcase.
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/106947398
Mutilated body on beach identified
SYDNEY. Sunday. ''Police have identified the badly mutilated body of a man washed up on Sydney's Curl Curl beach last Thursday.
He was Robert David Hiscock, 53. formerly of Tamworth, married, with an adult family.
Police said last night that Mr Hiscock had been a patient at a private hospital in Sydney's western suburbs until he disappeared last Wednesday morning.
Mr Hiscock was last seen alive by a taxidriver. who drove him to Strathfield station at 10am on Wednesday. A surfboard rider found his body washed up on Curl Curl beach on Thursday afternoon.
His throat had been cut, his tongue cut out and his ears cut off.
Police are trying to trace his movements between 10 a.m on Wednesday and 3.30 p.m on Thursday, when the body was found.
It is known that he frequented the Manly area and had been employed as a cleaner at the North Head Army barracks and the Balgowlah telephone exchange.
When last seen. Mr Hiscock was wearing black trousers, white shirt, dark jerkin with over-check, and possibly a dark coat.
He was carrying a large briefcase.
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/106947398