Maribyrnong councillor failed to show for Europe flight before being found dead [Video]

Three-time Maribyrnong mayor Sarah Carter failed to show up for a flight to Europe with her partner before he found her dead at home on Tuesday, according to a friend.

Tributes from across the political divide continued to flow in for the 45-year-old rising Labor Party star, who was remembered for her influential charity work at Save the Children and as a tireless champion of Melbourne’s western suburbs.

Victoria Police confirmed it was preparing a report for the coroner after finding a woman’s body in an apartment on Village Way, Maribyrnong, at 3.45pm on Tuesday. Police are not treating the death as suspicious.

The cause of her death is not yet known.

A message posted on Facebook by a friend of Carter …