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Balcony Fall Death of Chinese Girl Student Escaping Intruder Shocks Australia
Wei Liao, an 18-year-old Chinese student was the one to die while her 19-year-old Korean boyfriend, Chris Han, suffered a fractured pelvis and legs. The couple had been held hostage for more than an hour with their 20-year-old female flatmate and a female friend, police said.
The intruder, described as dark-skinned and aged about 30, followed the couple's female friend through the apartment block's security entrance about 12.35pm.
Once in the lift, the man held a knife to the woman's throat and accompanied her up to the flat.
Superintendent Freudenstein said the intruder was inside the apartment for an hour before the couple tried to escape from the balcony.
"It's believed the deceased and the injured male were trying to get to the next level - from level three to level two - to try and get away from the offender."
"Something's happened in that unit to make them take that step... for them to try and climb to the balcony beneath."
He said police were still trying to piece together what happened while the armed man was inside the unit.
"There is nothing to suggest that they targeted those victims, nothing to suggest that they knew those victims. Whatever the case, this is the first time in my 28 years working that I've seen such a horrific incident as this,'' Freudenstein said.
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11/08/2008
does google really find it necessary to post advertisements pertaining to chinese literature in the light of a death of a young chinese girl? i am sure the perpetrator of this crime will never be found, such a disgusting act against young students. may that young girl rest in peace.
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11/03/2008
Australian colleges and universities: Pls provide more information to overseas students on how to be alert and protect themselves from being attacked by strangers. They are too innocent, and too weak or not capable at all of defending a kinife armed man. It should not happen. I have seen another Chinese student (from a poor family background) has successfully got his mob phone back from an attacker armed with a knife. This 17 yrs old boy (no English at all) just confronted the attacker with his fists, the attacker soon returned the phone and escaped. Very easy!!! The lesson to be learned is: Most of attackers are not strong at all (Not easy to get a gun, while everyone can get a knife, right?). But the victims are too weak minded, not brave at all. 4:1 they could have won this battle, but they lost. Very sad truth! Advice to international students follows: Keep your mind open, be aware of that anything may happen around you. Get ready to protect yourself all the time. Do not be misled by migration agents's over possitive advertising of beautiful Australia and friendly people. It is quite normal, when economic goes down, crime rate goes up. It's very surprising that four young people were controlled by one man and nobody could try to ring 000 for help. They might be too shocked to remember what to do. As we can see, overseas students are lack of security education. Pls provide more of these info in their orientation classes!! A Chinese Australian in Sydney |
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