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[Yesterday]

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=655708

A knife-wielding attacker is believed to have forced two students to perform sex acts before they leaped from the third floor of an inner-city Sydney apartment.

Liao Wei, an 18-year-old Chinese woman and Chris Han, her 19-year-old Korean boyfriend, as well as two other women were held inside the Waterloo apartment on Sunday for more than an hour by the stranger, police said.

Neighbours called triple-0 after seeing the young couple fall naked some 25m from the balcony to the concrete surface below about 1.40pm (AEDT) Sunday.

Both were naked and police have not ruled out the possibility they were sexually assaulted or threatened with sexual assault prior to the fall.

A source was quoted in the Sydney Morning Herald as saying the reason the pair were naked was because the attacker forced them to perform sex acts.

"They were forced to do sexual acts and then forced to jump off the balcony," the source was quoted as saying.

"That's why they were naked."

The man suffered two broken legs, a fractured pelvis and a fractured vertebrae and was taken to Sydney's Royal Prince Alfred Hospital where he remained in a stable condition on Monday.

"It's believed the deceased and the injured male were trying to get to the next level, from level three to level two, to try and get away from the offender," Superintendent Luke Freudenstein said.

He conceded the couple must have been "very fearful" to attempt the climb.

"We don't know precisely how the (intruder) got in, but we do believe that he followed the female in after she buzzed her way in," Supt Freudenstein said.

"We don't know what the motive was ... it could have been a robbery, and we really don't know how long the fellow may have been loitering around out the front."

Once through the security entrance of the unit block the intruder threatened the woman with a knife and followed her to the apartment where he forced his way inside.

"We believe it's opportunistic," Supt Freudenstein said.

"There's nothing to suggest he targeted those victims. There's nothing to suggest they know the victim."

Some 65 minutes passed before neighbours saw the couple trying to climb off the balcony.

"Something has happened in that unit to make them take that step, 25 metres above a footpath for them to try and climb, from our information, to the balcony beneath and unfortunately they haven't made it," Supt Freudenstein said.

After the fall, the intruder - described only as a man aged about 30 with a dark complexion - walked out of the apartment leaving the two other women uninjured.

They have undergone counselling and were helping detectives, Supt Freudenstein said.

"This is the first time in my career of 28 years that I've seen such a horrific incident," he said.

"(I've) never heard anything like this before. It's a tragedy, a situation where people have had to actually scale a balcony to get to their safety."

Both victims were "highly educated" and studying in readiness to attend university, he said.

Police are using Interpol services to try and contact the victims' relatives.

[orosee]

I know this is besides the point but how is it possible to fall from a third floor and end up 25 meters below? Even considering a ground floor beneath the first floor, this is odd unless you count for each person individually and add up the total distance traveled (2x12.5 meters). Or they have 6 to 8 meters ceiling height in this apartment building? Or a 16 meter lobby? Or a ravine under the balcony? Most places I've been to, you need to fall from floors 8 to 10 to travel that far, and typically end up dead, not injured.

[Frankly Mr Shankly]

I get the feeling there will be much more to this case than meets the eye.

[RACETRAITOR]

Wait a second, were they forced to perform sex acts on each other?

Maybe this is just their excuse because they were doing some sort of sex hammock thing on the balcony and fell off, so when people found them naked and locked out, they said "Uh, a guy with a knife forced us to do sex acts."

I'm not sure about Australia, but I know in England, what North Americans call the second floor they call the first floor, so that might be why it's higher up.

[billybrobby]

Racetraitor, that was a bit callous. Didn't the woman die? It mentions the deceased but doesn't really state it.

[diver]

[PeteJB]

Why is the womans fate left out of the article? How confusing.

[sojusucks]

The problem is that MSN usually does a sloppy job.

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/articles/2008/10/28/1224956028150.html

[Yesterday]

If you watch the video (in the link) - you will see why a third-floor drop to the ground is 25 metre...


Story updated -

Korean guys name is Han, Tae Wook (just finished High school last year) (probably his first BJ)


All four occupants of a Sydney unit were forced to strip naked and sexually assaulted by a knife-wielding pervert, before two teenagers fell from the balcony, one to her death, police say.

Investigators have seized CCTV footage of the intruder, a man aged in his mid-20s who forced his way into the Waterloo unit, and plan to release his image later Wednesday.

Chinese student (Elva) Liao Wei, 18, died after falling from her third-floor unit about 1.40pm (AEDT) on Sunday.

Her boyfriend Tae Wook "Chris" Han, 19, suffered two broken legs, a fractured pelvis and fractured vertebrae in the fall and remains in hospital facing possible permanent damage.

The two were found naked after landing on concrete below their unit.

Detective Superintendent Geoff Beresford said police had interviewed Mr Han in hospital and his information had been "very helpful".

He said all four occupants of the unit - three women and a man - had been sexually assaulted.

"We can confirm that there were a number of sexual assaults on all of the victims," he told reporters.

"In relation to the deceased person and obviously the male person who suffered injuries from falling, we do expect that they were forced either by force or by other means (off the balcony)."

He described the crime as "particularly horrendous" and shocking.

"The fear that those people must have felt during this attack would be indescribable."

The intruder is described as about 175cm tall with a strong, stocky build, dark complexion, short dark hair and was last seen wearing shorts, a T-shirt and running shoes.

[The evil penguin]

[NoExplode]

Whomever wrote the article could work for the Korean Herald, it's so poorly written.