NSW Police arrest ‘kill crew’ over murder of Sydney woman
Three members of an alleged “death squad” have been arrested in connection with the murder of a Sydney woman who was kidnapped in front of children, stripped naked, shot dead and left in a burning car.
A group of masked men entered 45-year-old Thi Kim Tran’s house in Bankstown on April 17 and attacked an eight-year-old child with a baseball bat during the kidnapping.
Thi Kim Tran was abducted from her Bankstown home and shot dead in April.Credit: Facebook
Homicide detectives arrested three men, aged 32, 20 and 21, at Parramatta police station on Thursday morning and charged all three with murder and kidnapping charges.
Police claimed the men were part of a “kill team” hired to find and kill Tran’s husband, and when Tran could not be found, the men attacked his wife instead.
Tran was allegedly targeted after her husband was accused of stealing up to 80 kilograms of methamphetamine from his employers.
reporter This month it emerged that Tran’s husband was working for a methamphetamine manufacturing syndicate allegedly run by Daniel Rodney Badger, a Sydney man who moved to South East Asia where he is believed to be one of the Australian Federal Police’s most valuable targets.
Tran’s body was found in a burned car in Beverly Hills.Credit: Dylan Coker
Police arrested 29-year-old Anh Nguyen at the Bankstown unit in August for Tran’s alleged murder. He was charged with murder and wounding a person with intent to cause grievous bodily harm in relation to the alleged attack on the eight-year-old boy.
Homicide commander Joe Doueihi said at the time that Nguyen was in the upper echelons of the syndicate, which was brought out of the shadows along with other secret Vietnamese criminal gangs by Tran’s death and a series of other violent attacks.
