Officers found Darren James Cook while on an unrelated visit to a Suffolk Road property.

The 55-year-old's body appears to have been there for some time.

A post-mortem's been completed, but the cause of death is yet to be confirmed.

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03 Dec: A Coroner has decided against opening an inquiry into the death of a 13-year-old Christchurch school girl who fell and hit her head on a school ice skating trip

03 Dec: A Christchurch teen's due in court today, accused of stabbing a dairy owner during an aggravated robbery in Opawa

03 Dec: A man's been arrested after fleeing Police and crashing on State Highway 6 near Invercargill last night

02 Dec: A crash has closed State Highway Six near Lochiel, north of Invercargill

02 Dec: Criticism of Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown - for planning a rates hike, at the same time the Government's put up a plan to force Councils to cap them

02 Dec: Death and devastation: why a rare equatorial cyclone and other storms have hit southern Asia so hard

02 Dec: Kiwis and former Melbourne Storm prop Nelson Asofa-Solomona is set to pursue his dream of becoming a champion heavyweight boxer

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