Crowded House drummer found dead in park 08:02 AEDT Mon Mar 28 2005
Crowded House drummer Paul Hester has been found dead in a park in Melbourne.
Hester, 46, the father of two young girls, failed to return home from walking his two dogs on Saturday night, Sydney's Daily Telegraph newspaper said.
It said police found his body on Sunday in Elsternwick Park near his home.
Police said there were no suspicious circumstances, and friends said they were not aware of Hester having been depressed.
Hester quit Crowded House in 1994 but had reinvented himself as a drummer for hire, cafe owner and charismatic frontman of Music Max Sessions on Foxtel. He had also played drums in Split Enz from 1983 to 1984.
He lived in Elwood - a fashionable bayside suburb of Melbourne - with his girlfriend Mardi Sommerfeld and their two daughters aged eight and ten.
