Mel Gibson's new home hit by suicide tragedy

Mel Gibson's new California home has been hit by a suicide tragedy.

Police have confirmed that a carpenter working on the site of Gibson's new property in Agoura Hills, apparently hung himself from the house's rafters.

The body of the 47-year-old workman was found at the site at 8am on Wednesday.

"There were three additional co-workers there, one of them notified the police," Detective Eddie Brown of the Los Angeles Sheriffs Department said. "Nobody lives on the property, it's only wood framework."

Police say that no note was found, but that it is being treated as suicide.

Brown says that the man was found hanging just 2ft off the ground.

Gibson was not at the site and has never lived on the compound, which is just one mile from his Holy Family Catholic Church.