Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing a sus­pect­ed homi­cide af­ter a 70-year-old home­less man was found dead at the St Joseph Sec­ondary School on Sun­day.

Au­thor­i­ties re­port­ed that around 11.45 am, Vish­nu Ma­haraj was dis­cov­ered at the aban­doned build­ing fol­low­ing a tip from a fel­low home­less man, who said Ma­haraj had fall­en.

The 39-year-old man, al­so so­cial­ly dis­placed, vis­it­ed the St Joseph Po­lice Sta­tion to in­form of­fi­cers of the in­ci­dent.

Po­lice vis­it­ed the aban­doned school and found Ma­haraj on the up­per floor of one of the build­ings, with blood com­ing from his head.

Ma­haraj’s body was sub­se­quent­ly re­moved and sent to the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre for an au­top­sy to de­ter­mine the cause of death be­fore it can be of­fi­cial­ly clas­si­fied.