Officers investigating the death of a pensioner at an Inverness home have confirmed no criminality is suspected.
Murdo Mackinnon, 78, was found dead at his home in Kintail Crescent on Monday, August 21.
According to neighbours, Mr Mackinnon was a widower but had a partner until recently.
Police say his death remains unexplained but no suspicious circumstances are thought to have been involved.
Detective Chief Inspector Iain Smith said: “We have conducted extensive enquiries in the past few days and I can now confirm we have not identified any criminality.
“I am grateful for the patience and support of the community in the last week.
“I would like to offer our condolences to the family and friends of Mr Mackinnon.”
Speaking to The Press and Journal at the time of his death, neighbours paid tribute Mr Mackinnon saying he was a “very pleasant man”.
Margaret Lyall, who is retired and has lived in the street for four years, said: “I used to say hello to him when out and have a wee chat in the garden. He was a very nice man.
“I’m not sure how long he’d lived there but less than a year I would think.
“I know that his wife died years ago and I knew he was lonely because he told me. He had been separated from his partner for a few months.”
Mr Mackinnon’s death comes just one year after a council tenant was bludgeoned to death at the infamous “house of horrors” in nearby Kintail Court.
Elizabeth Mackay, 60, was murdered in the property by 72-year-old Michael Taylor in an attacked described as “quite staggering” in its brutality.
Taylor was sentenced to life in prison at a trial at the High Court in Edinburgh last month.
Ms Mackay had lived in the same semi-detached council house where Ilene O’Connor was murdered by Brian Grant in 2006 and then buried in the garden.