An elderly man has been charged with murder after a woman aged in her 80s was found dead at an aged care home in Melbourne’s east. Detectives are now investigating after police were called to Martin Luther Homes on Mount View Road in The Basin at 12.40pm, where the body of the woman had been found. “A man, aged in his 80s, was arrested at the scene,” police said in a statement. He is believed to be known to the woman. Police are treating the death as a homicide. The not-for-profit facility, operated by the German Lutheran Trinity Church, won an aged-care award last year and “offers aged-care services to German, other European and Australian residents,” according to its website.
