The German police, while searching for a stolen bicycle by chance, discovered the dead body of a 63-year-old woman in a house in the town of Neustrelitz in north-eastern Germany
According to a statement from police on Thursday, investigators suspected that the woman was killed by an act of violence and have arrested a 37-year-old man on suspicion of manslaughter in her death.
The police said that the man knew the woman, and although he was not related to her or a family member, he was also known to authorities from previous incidents.
Police officers had travelled to the apartment block earlier on Wednesday evening because they suspected a stolen bicycle might be found there, but they spotted the lifeless woman through a window; she had been dead for a while.
Even before the body was found, police had also been called out to deal with the 37-year-old suspect later arrested in the woman’s death.
He was reportedly heavily intoxicated and behaving aggressively towards pedestrians in the town of Neustrelitz. An officer on his way home from work who had observed what was happening intervened and alerted his colleagues.