No carefully crafted words of condolence.Instead, the news of Neil Tracey's death arrived on a scrap of paper.On the morning of May 9, 1989, a man walked into a butcher shop in Lyneham in Canberra's north and handed John Tracey a note, bearing the phone number of a Brisbane police constable."Your brother's dead, ring this bloke," the stranger said.John dialled.The officer on the other end told him his younger brother Neil, 26, had been found dead hours earlier at a boarding house in the riverside Brisbane suburb of New Farm.Police believed he had overdosed on drugs She believes not enough questions were asked."Were any questions asked [by police] about whether he was a heroin user, whether he was prescribed these drugs? Did he have a script for them? Did someone else give them to him? Did he have an accidental overdose or did he [commit] suicide?," she said.Some of Neil's relatives have been reluctant to speak publicly about his death, fearing retribution – but other family members are now speaking out to call for an independent review into the case.They have also hired a forensic expert to re-examine the circumstances."I just feel like he [Neil] didn't have that opportunity to have his death investigated properly," Neil's niece said."It's been this ongoing unresolved trauma for [the family] and … that has been passed down to the nieces and nephews and Neil's children."If we have the findings come out that he did self-administer these drugs and die from an overdose, then that's fine … we just want to make sure all avenues are looked at."That's the ultimate outcome here, just to do as much as we can and then ..