Roger Davies died with nine broken ribs. Police deemed his death non-suspicious and sent him to a pauper’s grave

Family photos of Roger Davies, a homeless man whose body was found, showing signs of violence, in an abandoned house three years after he died Composite: Supplied

In the shell of an abandoned house, beneath cobwebs spun across blackened walls, the skeleton of Roger Davies lay forgotten amid the rubbish.

Davies had come to this burnt-out home in Granville, western Sydney, seeking shelter, a place to squat alongside other rough sleepers fleeing Australia’s broken housing system.