MISSING SYDNEY WOMAN’S BODY FOUND IN BUSHLAND
THE body of Chinese woman Qi Yu, who disappeared last month, has been found in bushland near a major highway north of Sydney.
Ms Yu, 28, was last seen by friends at her Campsie share house in the city’s southwest on the evening of June 8.
Her 19-year-old housemate was charged with her murder days later and is in custody.
Police yesterday morning found a woman’s body in bushland about 1km off the M1 motorway exit at Mount Kuring-gai. A crime scene has been established.
Police search teams, supported by cadaver dogs, helicopters and marine units, have spent weeks scouring vast tracts of bushland and waterways around the area for signs of her body.
Phone records suggest Ms Yu’s white Toyota Corolla travelled north to the area around Mount Kuring-gai, Berowra and Cowan and then back to Campsie between 8.30pm and midnight on the night she disappeared.
Her 2016 model hatchback was later found dumped at Burwood in Sydney’s west the same weekend she disappeared.
Ms Yu’s parents – who flew from China after she went missing – had been distributing flyers at Sydney train stations which read: “Looking for Missing Girl Qi Yu” as they struggled to come to terms with her suspected murder.