The man’s body was found in the garden bed of a large building complex. Police then discovered a woman’s body in his apartment.
Police are working to contact the Chinese family of an international student from the University of Sydney found deadInvestigators were called to the Burwood Grand at 8.45am on Monday when a member of the public found the 21-year-old man dead in a garden bed at the Conder Street block, having apparently leapt to his own death.Credit:Officers then attended his apartment and discovered a woman’s body and what they say was the murder weapon.
The 21-year-old woman, also a Chinese international student at the same university, had been stabbed to death. Investigators are now trying to reach the man’s family in China and inform them of his death. The woman’s family have been notified. Police on Tuesday were working to confirm the pair, who had been living with a third Chinese international student in the inner west suburb, were in a relationship.“Violence against any person is not, and will not, be tolerated,” Superintendent Christine McDonald said on Monday.McDonald said police would keep “all lines of inquiry open”, but there was no suggestion from police that they were hunting anybody else.
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