Three men charged with murder of 45-year-old woman

ABC NEWS (Australia)

Another three men have been charged with the murder a 45-year-old woman in Sydney's south west earlier this year. Thi Kim Tran was taken from her Bankstown home at gunpoint in April and her remains were found in a burnt-out car. A 29-year-old man remains before the courts charged with murder and now another three men have also been charged, including a 30-year-old, a 22-year-old and a 21-year-old.

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00:00Police said they've charged three men, you've mentioned their ages, each of them are facing

00:06five charges, including murder. Police say they are well known to them. They say it was

00:10related to an incident that happened late at night on April the 17th. Police say the

00:15men forced entry into a home in Bankstown in Sydney's southwest. They say they were

00:20armed, or at least two of them were, one with a baseball bat, the other with a firearm.

00:24An eight-year-old boy suffered head injuries. This is what homicide squad commander Joe

00:28Dewey had to say. Remarkably the eight-year-old child has made a really good

00:32recovery. Initial reports were that he was going to have lifetime injuries but

00:36remarkably he's recovered really well. Psychologically I think that's probably

00:40still ongoing there and how they're being treated and how they go in there.

00:43Following the alleged assault, police say T Kim Tran, a 45-year-old woman, was forced into a car.

00:50About an hour later a car was found on fire in nearby Beverly Hills. The car was

00:55destroyed and inside were the remains of Miss Tran. Police say the target was Miss

00:59Tran's husband. They say he allegedly stole 80 kilograms of drugs from a crime

01:06network in Victoria. They say that while she was held they were sending text

01:11messages to her husband in an attempt to lure him out. Let's take a listen to what

01:15homicide squad commander Joe Dewey had to say.

01:19What we know is that the syndicate or the group were attempting to communicate with the

01:25husband to lure him out to murder him and attempt to recover their stolen or

01:31alleged missing drugs. When that failed they had always planned to attend that

01:38victim's residence. We will allege that regardless of what happened it was their

01:43intention to attend that address, kidnap the victim and murder her.

01:50Among the text messages that were sent were included a photo, police say, of Miss Tran to

01:54her husband. They say since the incident they have made contact with her husband.

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