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Last week Friday, schoolteacher Stephen John Michael's father found him dead in his house on Jaguar Avenue. The door was open, he was bleeding from the nose, and there was a pool of blood behind his head. That, along with apparent missing belongings led them to believe that he had been clubbed in the head, and then robbed. But the results of the post-mortem on his body this evening say that he died of natural causes.

The medical examiner has certified the cause of death as "acute lung failure and massive pulmonary oedema". The doctor believes that the lung failure is due to natural causes because there signs that he may have been suffering from lung disease. Further specimens have been retrieved and sent for tests for to confirm.

Police said from the outset that it was not a homicide, and they were treating it as sudden death.We could not reach his father for comment. A friend told police that when he last communicated with Michael the night before he was found dead, the 28 year old said he was having a headache.