The house: Demolished.
Photo / Doug Sherring
Rival gangs fought over a property where police are investigating the discovery of a headless skeleton.
Locals are relieved the house on Barrack Rd, Mt Wellington, has now been demolished. They found out about the grisly discovery through a Herald on Sunday article last month.
Andrew Davy, the owner of
Alliance Demolition, whose workers found the body, said the bones were in a heap as if tipped from a container, among what appeared to be food waste. Fragments of clothing, including jeans with an 85cm waist and a pair of size eight Chuck Taylor shoes, were clinging to the bones.
Police have narrowed the possible indentities to a small number and are waiting on an anthropology report.
Neighbours said the abandoned house was initially frequented by "homeless people and drunks" but a much shadier crowd had moved in earlier this year.
