Ipswich residents’ crime concerns grow as dead body found behind Potter’s House Church, Goodna

A dead body has been found behind an Ipswich church, just across the street from a shopping centre where a man was allegedly assaulted by teenagers over the weekend.

The area behind Potter’s House Church, Goodna, where a dead body was found on February 19, 2024. Picture: Nicola McNamara

A man, understood to be homeless, has been found deceased behind a church in Goodna, Ipswich, yesterday morning, February 19.

Locals posted to Facebook in shock after seeing police carrying a body bag on a stretcher from behind the Potter’s House Church on Smiths Rd.

“I went into Hungry Jacks (located on the other side of the fence) and it was blocked off with police tape all around the place,” one Facebook user commented.

Others commented their concerns about the incident being potentially crime-related, given the recent public incidents in the area including the death of Vyleen White in nearby Redbank Plains.

However police said they were not treating the death as suspicious.

Earlier this week, three teenagers were charged with assaulting a shopkeeper to steal his car at Goodna Marketplace, which is across the road from Potter’s House Church.

A dead body has been found Potter’s House Church, Goodna. Picture: Nicola McNamara

In relation to the body found, a police spokesman confirmed they were called to an address at Smiths Road in Goodna shortly after 10.30am after a report of a deceased person being found.

A crime scene was declared, before investigations found it was a person of no fixed address, who had been living in the area, who had died.

The police spokesman confirmed the death is not being treated as suspicious.