Brother of 20-year-old woman found dead inside her western Sydney home is arrested by police – as a large stained couch is wrapped up and taken away
- The body of 20-year-old woman has been found inside a house in Sydney’s west
- Police have since arrested the woman’s brother, 30, over her alleged murder
- Officers were called to the home on Monday night after concerns for her welfare
The brother of a 20-year-old woman found dead inside a western Sydney home has been arrested by police.
Police took the 30-year-old man into custody on Tuesday morning and are currently interviewing him at Parramatta Police Station.
Officers found the woman inside the home on Barlow Street, at Cambridge Park, at 9pm on Monday night after receiving a call asking them to check on her welfare.
Forensic detectives removed a large stained couch and other evidence from inside the home on Tuesday morning.
The brother of a 20-year-old woman found dead inside a western Sydney home has been arrested by police. Forensic detectives removed a large stained couch from inside the home on Tuesday morning, before wrapping it in paper and taking it away with other evidence
Officers found the woman inside the home on Barlow Street, at Cambridge Park, at 9pm on Monday night after receiving a call asking them to check on her welfare
Shocked neighbours in the quiet residential street said they had no idea something horrible had happened until noticing a number of police cars parked outside.
‘You kind of say hello to people in passing, but there’s a lot of coming and going so it’s a bit hard to tell who lives there and who is just visiting,’ one man said.
‘The only thing my daughter said over the weekend was that it was a bit quiet, they normally have a few parties or that kind of thing.
‘We didn’t realise anything was up until my wife walked out to put the bins out and saw the police cars.
‘Next minute there was police everywhere, an ambulance, it was all happening.’
Homicide detectives were on the scene assisting local officers and are now expected to take over the investigation.
The small cul-de-sac in which the home is located has been taped off by police.
Police remove evidence bags from the home – at the end of a cul-de-sac – on Tuesday morning
Homicide detectives were on the scene assisting local officers and are now expected to take over the investigation.