Melbourne couple lay dead for more than a week: police - The Australian

A father and daughter may have been dead for a week before they were found in their house in Melbourne.

Police remove bodies from the house in Hoppers Crossing. Picture: Rob Leeson Source: Herald Sun

TWO bodies found at a home in Melbourne's southwest may have laid undiscovered for more than a week.

Officers found the bodies of a man aged in his 90s and a woman in her 60s at the house in Minogue Crescent, Hoppers Crossing, around 6pm (AEDT) last night.

A neighbour said the pair were a father and daughter both in ill health, and may have been dead for more than a week before being discovered, the Herald Sun reported.

Neighbour Barry Beer told the Herald Sun he had just returned from holidays and became suspicious when he noticed their mailbox had not been emptied.

"I climbed the back fence and ... I called the police," he said.

Mr Beer said both were in poor health and he believed the daughter might have passed away first and her invalid father would not have been able to live without her.

"She did everything for him," he said.

Police said the deaths did not appear to be suspicious and a report would be prepared for the coroner to determine how the pair died.

AAP