An Asian-American man who was found dead by a passer-by in Kent (Campsie), southwest Sydney, is still unknown on April 10, but investigations suggest that the man may be in great physical pain and loneliness in the last few days of his life.
The body of the Asian man is located near Dan Kok on Kensby Mish Street.
The Australian news network reported that the man was believed to have committed suicide and that the police investigation provided theory and speculation about his background, but given the lack of evidence, it also meant that coroner Marbutt (Les Mabbutt) was struggling to identify him.
The Asian-looking man is believed to be between 50 and 70 years old, and the body is located not far from the bus stop at (Dan`s Corner), Dan Kok, (Beamish Street), Bimish Street, Kensi main Street. He was wearing a blue plaid shirt and beige trousers, black socks and slippers. After passers-by saw him and called the police, paramedics arrived at the scene and found him dead for hours.
The man did not have a wallet or cell phone, nor any documents that could identify him, except for an Australian card, (Opal card). Police checked the card`s usage records and found that the cash-bought card was used between April 8 and 10 last year. The start and end of his trip were in Dan Kok, so police speculated that he had lived near the bus stop before his death.
The man`s final record of using the card was a 250-meter journey and got off at 04:42 that day outside a grocery store in Dan Kok.
The dead man was suspected to be a black man.
Police pointed out that many people near the location of the man`s body were living in sub-rental houses, and that many of the tenants of such houses were "illegal non-citizens", so they suspected that he was also one of the black people who lived nearby.
These black people used to enter the country legally, such as tourist visas, but overstayed.Although they can continue to work and live in hiding places in Australia, life may be very difficult. Because they don`t have a healthcare card, (Medicare), they don`t have access to health care, they don`t have access to proper employment opportunities, they have to work in black jobs, they are often treated unfairly and are deducted from their salaries.
In order to survive in a foreign country as a black people, they usually rely heavily on their families who have legal residency rights. But no one knew the man after the police raided the area of Dan Kok.
Mabut, on the other hand, could not find sufficient evidence to prove that the man was indeed from abroad, and even Asian appearance did not rule out a variety of possibilities, for example, that he might have been born in Australia or had lived in many countries.
Police had considered publishing photos of the man to the media for clues, but the only one was the one at the crime scene, which Mr. Marbutt said had finally decided not to disclose photographs of the deceased, a decision he said was reasonable.
The man is said to have multiple myeloma, a blood cancer associated with leukemia. Although multiple myeloma can be treated, it is usually not cured. Police believe that because the man was a black man, he was unable to seek medical treatment and had to suffer from illness.
Evan (Rebecca Irvine), a forensic pathologist, said the man`s bones were diseased, indicating that his body was "seriously unwell" and that paracetamol had been detected in his body, but that the over-the-counter drug could not relieve the pain caused by the tumor in his body. In addition, men`s blood alcohol level of 0.023, although not enough to affect the coordination of the body, but can slightly inhibit pain.
Given that no one in the authorities` missing persons report fits the man`s description, Mabut believes he is unfortunately estranged from his family in Australia or overseas and has little support for his fight against the disease.
In the end, Marbutt ruled that there was no suspicious cause of death.
