Australian dead in Delhi hotel

A 33-year-old Australian tourist was found dead in mysterious circumstances at a hotel in the national capital’s Paharganj area. Julian Stanford, a Sydney resident, was found unconscious with froth oozing from his mouth in a room at Hotel Express in central Delhi late on Sunday, the police said.

“Stanford was rushed to hospital where doctors declared him dead. We are awaiting the post-mortem report to ascertain the cause of his death,” additional DCP (Central) IB Rani said.

Stanford arrived in India on April 4 on a tourist visa and had been staying in the hotel since Friday.

According to hotel authorities, he left the hotel room early on Sunday morning to see off his girlfriend, Georgia, who caught a flight to Australia.

“He came back and latched the door of his room and we did not hear anything from him afterwards. In the evening, our hotel staff knocked at his door but there was no response.

“Finally, we opened the door with a master key and found him lying on the bed with froth coming out of his mouth,” the hotel manager said.  A case has been registered and further investigations are on.