Man Found Living with Dead Housemate - Wed Jun 11, 8:25 AM ET

BERLIN (Reuters) - German authorities put a 43-year-old man into psychiatric care after he was found living with his housemate who had been dead a month, police said on Wednesday.

Police discovered the rotting body of the 58-year-old man on his living room couch, following a tip-off from a hired gardener who grew suspicious after being repeatedly sent away. An autopsy on the body gave no hint of foul play, police said.

"The man told us he had just stopped eating," said Hans Roeck, a police spokesman in the southern town of Aalen.