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POLICE are awaiting further forensic results to confirm the identity of a man whose remains were located in bushland north of Wollongong at the weekend.
The human bones were found in the Royal National Park on Saturday afternoon.
Forensic testing has been carried out to try to determine the cause of the person’s death, their age and how long their remains had been lying in the bushland.
A post mortem examination on Wednesday revealed the remains belonged to a man, but all other tests were inconclusive.
The bones will now be subjected to further forensic examination in order to positively identify the man.
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POLICE hope to learn today if the human bones found stuffed in a bag in the Royal National Park are those of a man or woman.
Forensic testing was being carried out to try to determine the cause of the person's death, their age and how long their remains had been lying in the bushland.
It is understood that there was no clothing with the skeletal remains nor were there any visible signs of injury.
However investigators suspect foul play because the circumstances in which the bones were found indicate it was not an accidental death.
"The case is being treated as a homicide mainly because of the manner in which the bones were situated," a police source said.
The bones were found by a motorist who stopped on the side of Sir Bertram Stevens Drive to go to the toilet on Saturday afternoon and raised the alarm.
A police search over the next two days uncovered more remains, including bones in a large nylon bag.
The site where the bones were discovered is within walking distance of the site from which Matthew Leveson's skeleton was dug up in May last year; the culmination of a decade-long search.
Mr Leveson's remains were discovered in the Royal after his ex-boyfriend Michael Atkins - the man once charged with killing him - was granted immunity from prosecution from perjury charges on condition he showed police the location of Mr Leveson's remains.