Vale Richard Marsland

I wish that our first story for the week on Defamer Australia wasn’t so frightfully sad, but I’m afraid it is. Triple M radio personality Richard Marsland apparently took his own life over the weekend.

Fans and friends have paid tribute to Melbourne breakfast radio host Richard Marsland, who was found dead in his car on a lonely stretch of road in Victoria’s Dandenong Ranges.

A park ranger raised the alarm after finding the 32-year-old’s body in his car at Shiprock Falls around 10.30am (AEDT) on Saturday but despite police resuscitation efforts, Marsland was later pronounced dead.

Victoria Police said an investigation had been launched and a brief would be passed to the state coroner but there were no suspicious circumstances.

There’s not much I can really add, I’m afraid, except to say that it is incredibly tragic that a 32-year-old man, who from all reports appears to be smart and funny and kind and well-liked by his peers, has passed away under such terrible circumstances. My thoughts and prayers go out to his family and friends.

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