A woman who has been missing for five days was killed by her 19-year-old flatmate after an argument over money, police sources say.
Qi Yu, 28, was reportedly talking to her family in China over the internet when the call suddenly ended at around 7.15pm on Friday. She has not be seen or heard from since.
Police have charged a teenager who rented a room in her shared house in Campsie, south-west Sydney with her murder.
Qi Yu (pictured) last spoke to her family in China on Friday and hasn’t been seen since
Qi Yu was reported missing from her townhouse in Loch Street, Campsie in Sydney’s south-west on Saturday morning
Matt Kwan, Legal Aid Laywer for the accused murderer, arrives at Burwood Local Court, in Sydney, on Wednesday
Police will allege he killed her in an argument before using her car to dump the body, according to The Daily Telegraph.
Police found Qi’s white 2016 Toyota Corolla with NSW registration plates DLK-13P abandoned on a street four kilometres away from her home on Saturday night.
Following inquiries, a 19-year-old man was taken to Campsie Police Station upon his release from hospital on Tuesday and charged with murder.
He was refused bail to appear in Burwood Local Court on Wednesday.
Investigators continue to conduct inquiries to locate Ms Yu’s body.
The young woman’s distraught mother has flown from China to Sydney to help with the search for her daughter, 9 News reported.
‘She’s a little girl, and very honest, and I feel so upset … I want her alive because her mum’s very worried about her,’ one of Ms Yu’s friends said.
Vincent Chen, who lives two doors from Ms Yu, heard her mother arrive at the home with police on Sunday morning.
‘She cried and cried… she didn’t sleep for three days already,’ Mr Chen told The Daily Telegraph.
‘If something happen to someone’s family like that, it’s terrible.’
The 2016 model Toyota Corolla was located on Lindsay Street in Burwood on Saturday night
Investigators continue to conduct inquiries to locate Ms Yu’s body