A convicted child sex offender from the New South Wales far south coast has been found dead in Sydney's Long Bay prison.
Eden man Reinhard "Fritz" Drenkhahn was serving a four-year sentence after being jailed last year over the sexual abuse of two teenage boys 20 years ago.
In a statement, Corrective Services NSW said a 70-year-old man was found unresponsive in a common area of Long Bay on Friday November 26 around 9:15am and pronounced deceased at 9:35am.
Corrective Services NSW and NSW Police are investigating the incident.
Fresh charges laid
Drenkhahn had been due to be released on parole this Friday, however NSW Police last week laid new charges against him on separate allegations of child sexual assault involving three boys and a girl.
He faced the eight new charges in court in Wollongong on November 23 and was due back in court on November 30.
The charges included committing an act of indecency with a female under 16 years of age and indecent assault on a male aged 14 years or older.
It was alleged he sexually abused the boys and girl while on sporting club camping trips at Berkeley, Childowla, Lake Illawarra, and Wyangala Dam in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
In 2020 Drenkhahn was sentenced to four years jail with a non-parole period of two years for assaulting two boys in the NSW towns of Eden and Wagga Wagga between 2000 and 2003.
His death will be subject to a coronial inquest.
