A person is ready to face courtroom charged with murdering the West Coast Eagles’ ex-physiotherapist and coach of the Australian males’s seaside handball staff at his suburban house.
Patrik Weiss, 45, was discovered useless at Lockridge in Perth on Monday afternoon.
Murder detectives established Operation Bulb to research the daddy of two’s apparently violent loss of life.
West Australian police stated on Sunday a 19-year-old man had been arrested at a Excessive Wycombe house, charged with homicide and was because of face Perth Magistrates Courtroom.
Police beforehand stated it didn’t look like a random incident and they didn’t consider there was any ongoing threat to the neighborhood.
“There are circumstances which are evident on the crime scene that give us (causes) to suspect there was third-party involvement,” Inspector Geoff DeSanges advised reporters.
In line with reviews within the WA press, Mr Weiss was discovered certain and blindfolded.
Handball Australia stated Mr Weiss had served because the nationwide males’s coach since 2013, having arrived from Germany virtually a decade earlier.
He had not too long ago been getting ready the lads’s staff for the World Seaside Video games in Bali in August after Australia certified as Oceania champions.
Mr Weiss was a sports activities physiotherapist and had additionally labored as a gentle tissue therapist for the West Coast Eagles AFL membership.
“This tragic information has shocked our neighborhood,” Handball Australia stated.
“Patrik took quite a lot of enjoyment and satisfaction in growing the game of seaside handball, the expansion of the gamers and constructing a constructive staff tradition.
“For this Handball Australia is, and can stay, extraordinarily grateful to Patrik.
“He shall be sadly missed however remembered with affection and respect.”
The Worldwide Handball Federation stated Weiss had led Australia to 3 world championships and had an “distinctive affect” on the game in his adopted nation.
-AAP