Melbourne: A 32-year-old Indian-origin woman dentist in Australia, who went missing under mysterious circumstances, has been murdered with her body bearing numerous stab wounds found dumped in a suitcase in Sydney, police said on Wednesday.
The man suspected of murdering the Sydney dentist Preethi Reddy, whose body was found stuffed in a suitcase in her car parked in an eastern Sydney street, New South Wales, is another Indian-origin dentist and her ex-boyfriend Harsh Narde, police said.
Narde died after his BMW car collided with a truck on the New England Highway on Monday night, a day after his ex-girlfriend was reported missing.
The head-on collision, around 340 km from where Reddy’s body was found, is believed to have been deliberate, they said.
That crash, which occurred about 10 pm (local time), is “believed to be a deliberate act,” police said. The police said they spoke to Narde, aged in his thirties, as part of the missing persons probe, before his death. They said the probe was still in its early stages. “I cannot qualify exactly what has happened and I won’t put it out there because if we’re wrong and it’s not substantiated then we’re doing a disservice to Preethi and her family,” detective superintendent Gavin Dengate told the ABC News. “At this stage we know they met up in Sydney and now we’re looking at all the movements between the two,” the officer was quoted as saying.
