The man is in police custody after he allegedly stabbed his housemate to death on Thursday morning.
A 42-year-old man is in police custody after he allegedly stabbed his housemate to death two weeks after he moved into the Russell Lea address.
Police found a woman’s body inside the Clements Street home in Sydney’s inner west on Thursday morning.Nikki Short A member of the public rang 000 when they heard a woman “who needed help” screaming , Burwood Commander Superintendent Christine McDonald told reporters on Thursday afternoon. The woman is believed to be aged in her 50s. She has not been formally identified as police seek her next of kin. Police will allege she was killed by a stab wound to the neck, but suffered “significant and multiple injuries to her upper body”, McDonald said.“They are ... upset. The scene that police arrived to, it is very clear that is a homicide. You can imagine if you were known to the victim, you would be extremely distressed,” McDonald said.
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