Fourth man charged over alleged kidnapping murder of Sydney man Chris Baghsarian | New South Wales

A fourth man has been charged over the kidnap and murder of an elderly Sydney man who was allegedly kidnapped due to mistaken identity.

More than two months after 85-year-old Chris Baghsarian was abducted from his home in Sydney’s north in the early hours of February 13, police arrested a 19-year-old on Tuesday on two charges including murder.

The man was expected to appear in Mount Druitt local court on Wednesday.

A criminal complaint was filed against the other three people and they are still in the courts.

Shortly after Bagsharian’s disappearance, police discovered that the widowed grandfather was not the intended target and had been kidnapped in a case of mistaken identity.

They made various appeals to the public, calling on the kidnappers to release the 85-year-old man and return him to his family.

But on February 24 his body was found near a golf club in Pitt Town, north-west of Sydney.

Investigators believe Baghsarian was killed on the night of February 14 in a makeshift fortress in Dural, about a half-hour drive from where his remains were found.

Baghsarian’s family described the ordeal as a nightmare and remembered him as a devoted father, brother, uncle and grandfather who “never hurt a fly.”