A Styrian man left his wifes rotting corpse in a bed in his kitchen for days before calling doctors to tell them he thought she might be dead, it has emerged.

Police in Murau district said a doctor was sent to the flat in Neumarkt after the man, 68, called cops yesterday (Mon) to say that he thought his wife had died.

The doctor discovered the corpse of the woman lying in a bed put up in the kitchen.