Body of woman, 20, ‘killed by her brother’ had been lying in the home they shared for several days - as a large stained couch is wrapped up and taken away
- The body of 20-year-old woman has been found inside a house in Sydney's west
- Gabby Delaney may have been lying dead inside the home for almost one week
- Her brother Lucas Delaney, 30, has been arrested and is expected to be charged
- Ms Delaney's parents, who live in Western Australia, raised the alarm on Monday
- Officers were called to the home where they were met with a 'confronting scene'
The body of a 20-year-old woman allegedly murdered by her brother had been lying inside the home they shared for several days.
Gabby Delaney, 20, was found dead inside the home on Barlow Street, at Cambridge Park in western Sydney, on Monday, but police say she was last seen alive on June 3.
Officers had been called to the home by her parents - who live in Western Australia - to check on her welfare, who had made a number of failed attempts to contact her.
Ms Delaney’s brother Lucas, 30, was arrested on Tuesday morning and is expected to be charged with her murder.
Forensic detectives and the homicide squad spent the morning at the 'confronting' scene assisting local officers in their investigations.
A couch - believed to have been stained with blood - was removed from the home and taken away with other evidence.
Gabby Delaney, 20, was found dead inside her home at Cambridge Park, in Sydney’s west, on Monday night. Her brother has been arrested over her death
Gabby's brother Lucas, 30, has arrested over her death and is being questioned at Parramatta Police Station
Police remove evidence bags from the home - at the end of a cul-de-sac - on Tuesday morning
Shocked neighbours in the quiet residential street said they had no idea something horrible had happened until police cars parked outside.
'You kind of say hello to people in passing, but there's a lot of coming and going so it's a bit hard to tell who lives there and who is just visiting,' one man said.
'The only thing my daughter said over the weekend was that it was a bit quiet, they normally have a few parties or that kind of thing.
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'We didn't realise anything was up until my wife walked out to put the bins out and saw the police cars.
'Next minute there was police everywhere, an ambulance, it was all happening.'
Homicide detectives were on the scene assisting local officers and were expected to take over the investigation.
The small cul-de-sac in which the home is located was taped off by police.
Gabby Delaney may been dead for several days before he body was found. Police have taken a a couch away with other evidence
Shocked neighbours in the quiet residential street said they had no idea something horrible had happened until noticing a number of police cars parked outside.
Officers found the woman inside the home on Barlow Street, at Cambridge Park, at 9pm on Monday night after receiving a call asking them to check on her welfare
Nextdoor neighbour Brittney Hotchkiss was shocked by the death.
‘She was really nice and she was just so young. She was my age and I just couldn’t imagine what her family’s going through,’ Ms Hotchkiss said.
‘I’m pretty freaked out. It was right nextdoor so that’s a bit scary.’
Police carry out forensics at the home shared by Gaby and Lucas Delaney
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