Selim Sensoy charged with murder of mother Nadire in Prospect, Sydney, home in 2018
Cold case breakthrough as son is charged with murdering his mother four years ago after police issued a $350,000 reward for information and her daughter refused to believe she had deliberately disappeared
- Son accused of murdering his mother in western Sydney
- Selim Sensoy allegedly killed Nadire Sensoy
- Ms. Sensoy was reported missing in 2018
- In 2020, a $350,000 reward was offered for information
The son of a missing mother who disappeared four years ago has been charged with her alleged murder as the woman’s family hopes her body will finally be found.
Nadire Sensoy, 71, disappeared from her Prospect home in western Sydney in 2018.
Her son, Selim Sensoy, 47, was arrested in Wagga Wagga on Tuesday, with police alleging that Sensoy killed his mother between December 6 and December 11, 2018.
He has been denied bail and will appear before the local Wagga Wagga court on Tuesday.
Selim Sensoy, 47, has been charged with the alleged murder of his mother Nadire in 2018, with the arrest more than four years after she disappeared
Nadire Sensoy, 71, disappeared from her home in Sydney’s western Prospect in 2018, with a $350,000 reward for information on her whereabouts in 2020
The arrest follows an investigation into Sensoy’s death that began on March 13 before being suspended due to “new information coming to light.”
The grandmother’s disappearance had remained a mystery to investigators who never found her body.
Nadire’s daughter Sue Sensoy said the family is desperate for her remains to be discovered.
“She was a beautiful woman, everyone loved her,” she said.
In 2020, a $350,000 reward was offered for information on her whereabouts as the family desperately searched for answers.
Ms Sensoy’s other daughter, Turkan Alagoz, said at the time that her mother would not have left voluntarily and had been a local Prospect for more than 40 years.
Ms. Sensoy was a mother of five, grandmother of 17 and a great-grandmother of four at the time she went missing.
Blacktown Police Chief Superintendent Stephen Egginton previously described her disappearance as “mysterious”.