A woman was seen “hanging” from a seventh-storey balcony in Sydney’s west moments before her death on Thursday morning, with her partner taken into police custody.
Speaking outside Parramatta Police Station on Thursday afternoon, Detective Superintendent Barry Vincent said the death was being treated as suspicious, but that the details of the case were “complex”.
“Police received calls … that a female person was hanging from the balcony,” he said.
The 38-year-old woman and her partner, 40, have yet to be identified. The man had an Apprehended Violence Order in place for his protection and has not been charged.
“In terms of the relationship, there were previous interactions with the police,” Vincent said.
Police were first called at 11.45pm by someone in the apartment on River Road West in Parramatta, where only background noise, including raised voices, could be heard.
Police at the Parramatta apartment block.Credit: Dominic Lorrimer
The phone number from which the call was made did not belong to the man.
Police called back twice and spoke to the man now in custody, who provided his name and address, and told the man they would attend the apartment later that evening.
