Police spent three days searching Stephen Armitage’s Cooloola Cove home this week, where they confiscated numerous items including computers and telephones.

Their search was linked to the death of Mr Barker, whose skull was found in the Tin Can Bay region by forestry workers on April 10.

Police left Mr Armitage's home on Thursday and did not lay any charges.

Mr Armitage said he believed someone provided a false tip-off to police because he and his family didn’t know Mr Barker.

“I’ve got nothing to hide, that’s the thing. That’s what I was telling the coppers,” he told Fairfax Media.

“I’m just pissed at the way they’ve trashed the house. I had to go and buy a new bed because they broke my bed when they were pulling it apart.

“They pulled everything apart in the house and they broke pots out the back.

Police declined to respond to Mr Armitage’s claims on Friday afternoon.

“As the investigation is ongoing it would not be appropriate to comment at this time,” Queensland Police said in a statement.

After investigators - including forensic teams - turned up at his Cooloola Cove home, Mr Armitage said rumours about he and Mr Barker were rife in the area.

“Apparently one of the rumours is he was my ex-wife’s boyfriend. The rumours are bullshit. I’d be buying the guy a beer if he was my ex-wife’s boyfriend, not burying him in a hole,” he said.

“Everyone in town is talking about me. I’ve done nothing wrong but you go somewhere and they look at you like you’re a criminal.”

Mr Barker was last seen by his family in mid-December and his skull was found in the Toolara State Forest five months later.

The 33-year-old’s Kia Rio hatchback was found in bushland on the Gold Coast last month.