Tania Ellwood was found dead in a room at a Grey Lynn lodge last March. Picture / Supplied
Tania Ellwood was found dead in a room at a Grey Lynn lodge last March. Picture / Supplied
A coroner's report into the death of Auckland woman Tania Ellwood, who died in a Grey Lynn boarding house last year, says the cause cannot be ascertained.
Ellwood, 39, was found dead in a room at Dryden Lodge on March 6 last year, along with her ex-boyfriend Timothy Kerr Hamilton,36.
The two deaths were initially described by police as "unexplained". Both were referred to the coroner at the end of the police investigation.
Stuff reported that much of a report completed by coroner Judge Deborah Marshall was subject to a non-publication order which lapsed today.
Coroner Marshall ruled that the cause of the former actress' death could not be ascertained, due to the advanced decomposition of her body.
Police partially cordoned off the downstairs level of the Grey Lynn property and donned face masks and scrubs to scour the scene.
One man at the scene told the Herald it was like "something out of a horror movie".
"Flies were buzzing around the windows," he said.
"My biggest fears come true."
After the bodies were found the room was blessed by a pastor and residents at the lodge chipped in to buy flowers, which were laid at the scene in memory of the dead.
