Three members of an alleged “kill crew” have been arrested over 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 who broke into the Bankstown home of Thi Kim Tran, 45, on April 17, also bashed an eight-year-old boy with a baseball bat during the kidnapping.
Homicide squad 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 alleged the men were part of a “kill crew” hired to find and kill Tran’s husband, and that the men attacked his wife instead when he couldn’t be found.
Tran was allegedly targeted after her husband was accused of stealing up to 80 kilograms of methamphetamine from his employers.
The Herald revealed this month Tran’s husband was working for a methamphetamine manufacturing syndicate allegedly run by Daniel Rodney Badger, a Sydney man who relocated to South-East Asia believed to be one of the Australian Federal Police’s highest-value targets.
Thi Kim Tran was abducted from her Bankstown home and shot dead in April.Credit: Facebook
Tran’s body was found in a burnt-out car in Beverly Hills.Credit: Dylan Coker
Police had already arrested a 29-year-man, The Anh Nguyen, at a Bankstown unit in August over Tran’s alleged murder. He was charged with murder and wounding a person with intent to cause grievous bodily harm over the alleged attack on the eight-year-old boy.
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