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Breakthrough in the death in the stairwell as two men are charged with murder after a mysterious CCTV surfaced
- Two men charged with murder of Chinese national who was found in a stairway
- Chinese national Tao Cheng is found dead on a stairway near a Sydney game coffee shop
- Mr. Cheng’s body was found by a cleaner in a hidden fire escape
Two men have been charged with murder in the suspicious death of a Chinese national whose body was found in the stairwell of a Sydney hotel.
Police found the body of 25-year-old Tao Cheng at the Kent Street hotel in the CBD on December 7.
Mr. Cheng was last seen entering a cafe at around 9 pm on December 4.
Three days later, a cleaner made the grim discovery in a nearby stairwell.
Two men have been charged with murder in the suspicious death of a Chinese national, Tao Cheng (pictured), whose body was found in the stairwell of a Sydney hotel.
On Thursday, police released a CCTV image showing two men walking down the hotel corridor. Police have since arrested a 25-year-old man and a 27-year-old man and charged them both with murder.
On Thursday, police released a CCTV image showing two men walking down the hotel corridor.
The footage shows two men walking down a hallway talking and laughing.
At the end of the 10-second clip, a man sporting a ponytail spots the camera and points at it before withdrawing his hand.
The following day, police arrested a 27-year-old man at licensed premises in Campsie, south-west Sydney.
On December 7, police found the body of 25-year-old Tao Cheng at the Kent Street hotel in Sydney’s CBD. Mr. Cheng was last seen entering a cafe around 9 pm on December 4.
He was charged with murder, appeared in court and was denied bail before appearing at Downing Center Local Court on 16 February.
A 25-year-old man was arrested Tuesday on Stradbroke Island in Queensland and charged under a NSW warrant for murder.
Investigators from Strike Force Feyer will fly to Queensland to request the man’s extradition to NSW in the coming days.
Three days after Mr. Cheng was last seen, a cleaner made the grim discovery in a nearby stairway.