Man, 48, dead for days before being found in Taringa home, police allege

Police allege a 48-year-old man found dead in his Brisbane home last Thursday was murdered five days before his body was found.

Michael Bradley Small and Scott Richard Gordon, both aged 33, were arrested and charged with murder late yesterday afternoon.

Both men appeared separately via video link to the Brisbane Magistrates Court this morning

Deputy Chief Magistrate Janelle Brassington said it was alleged the pair killed the 48-year-old on Sunday, August 30, five days before his body was found in the Waverley Street home in Taringa.

The accused are not eligible for bail and both were remanded in custody for a committal callover mention on September 28.

Police were called to a Waverley Road address around 3pm on September 3 where the body of a man was located.

A crime scene was immediately established at the residence, with Indooroopilly detectives assisted by Crime and Intelligence Command's Homicide Investigation Unit investigating the suspicious death.