Australia Australia - Amesha Rajapakse, 31, Westmead, NSW, 26 Aug 2014

[Xantara]

Also ... if the blood-curdling scream was at 5:30-6:00am, according to the building manager, what was going on until 7:30am when the first responders showed up?
Emergency facilities – fire, police, ambulance – are all about 5 minutes away, according to Google.

There seems to be a big time delay imo.

South Aussie, I just put that down to inconsistent media reporting. In one of the reports it said the scream was heard at 6.30, 'just before' police etc arrived. I think there are several slight variations out there.
I also read somewhere that it was the person who found Amesha that rang 000

 

[spooks]

http://www.hirunews.lk/90701/lankan-found-dead-in-sydney[/url]

Just watched the local news report on that link. Not that the media here has a reputation for journalistic accuracy, but nothing new to note in it, except

1. The name was written and pronounced as "ameesha"
2. A troll on the page has commented asking whether she was a drug addict, and two people have replied back harshly. One abusing the troll, the other commenting that she knew the girl as a "very good, innocent child".

 

[Piker]

Sunrise would have been around 06:18 and I assume by reading bike riders blogs that 1st light would be 20 mins earlier. So there is no way the body could have been found prior to 06:00...

Wonder if Anoshka could get a precise time when screams were heard. There is nothing to beat local knowledge.

 

[MsAnais]

Sunrise would have been around 06:18 and I assume by reading bike riders blogs that 1st light would be 20 mins earlier. So there is no way the body could have been found prior to 06:00...

Wonder if Anoshka could get a precise time when screams were heard. There is nothing to beat local knowledge.

Welcome Piker!!

:welcome:

It's so great to have all these new faces on the thread with us!!

And you're so right re local knowledge.

 

[fruity]

I really, really don't think this was a suicide and I think she knew her murderer quite well.

None of the news articles have the usual Lifeline number and 'if you or someone you know needs help please call' line at the end.

 

[fruity]

There are some good photos here, particularly at the end, of the fence (if it is the same one). Some of the information is incorrect (about her husband, I understand she is not married).

http://news.optuszoo.com.au/2014/08/28/murder-or-just-a-mystery-2/

When the news first broke it said her husband was screaming 'show me her face' ... so was that her brother screaming since she isn't married? The one who found her? If he found her you would think he had already seen her face.

 

[fruity]

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/distraugh...-found-in-westmead-creek-20140827-108y4a.html

This article just says 'a man', not her husband.

 

[MsAnais]

There are some good photos here, particularly at the end, of the fence (if it is the same one). Some of the information is incorrect (about her husband, I understand she is not married).

http://news.optuszoo.com.au/2014/08/28/murder-or-just-a-mystery-2/

When the news first broke it said her husband was screaming 'show me her face' ... so was that her brother screaming since she isn't married? The one who found her? If he found her you would think he had already seen her face.

Yes, we think it was her brother who screamed. He was the one who found her. And yes - it is very weird that he called out about her face since he is the one who found her.....

 

[MsAnais]

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/distraugh...-found-in-westmead-creek-20140827-108y4a.html

This article just says 'a man', not her husband.

Early articles got their facts wrong. It was later confirmed that her brother found her. Alot of errors in the early reporting in this case, for some reason.

 

[fruity]

Actually if you have a look at the second last photo of the police officer looking over the fence, it would be VERY easy to jump over. You would only have to climb up onto the garden bed then lift your leg over.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/ne...r-just-a-mystery/story-fni0cx12-1227038411749

 

[fruity]

Trying to see things from the other side ...

She could have been pacing because she was agitated and in a distressed state of mind if she was considering suicide.

Perhaps she had been mentally unwell, which is why she disappeared previously (if those reports are true).

She might have been jamming the scarf in the door in case she changed her mind and wanted to go home later.

If she was wearing traditional Sri Lankan dress, a scarf could have been part of her outfit. Swirling water in the rain (waist deep on police) could have easily wrapped it around her neck.

Her relatives were reportedly out all night looking for her, which is why their shoes and clothes were muddy. It would make sense that she was found at dawn if she was in water since it looks black until there is some light around.

If it was dawn and her brother saw a body, screamed, then called police, he could have been in shock later and disbelief which is why he wanted to see her face.

Like the news headline says, murder or mystery?

 

[SouthAussie]

The 'I just want to see her face' comment was made by the dad. You can see him actually saying it in one of the Ch 9 videos that I posted a few pages back. Police turned him, and the brother, away.

He says 'I yearn to see her face' ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdBv5QWiNys

 

[Amee]

Ms Rajapakse was last seen pacing the foyer of her unit block looking agitated and using a thin scarf to keep the secured door open as she came in and out.

According to the building *manager, Ms Rajapakse left the complex at 7.30pm on Tuesday.

“All I can take from that is she didn’t have her access card,” a staff member said. It is not known if it was the same scarf found around her neck.

http://colombogazette.com/2014/08/29/australia-police-probe-lankans-death/


Im wondering why Amesha didnt go back and get her access card?

Sorry if this has been discussed already, Im still catching up :blushing:

 

[Amee]

“She was the nicest, most laid-back person ever,” the staff member said.

“She didn’t seem to have a worry in the world.”


Ms Rajapakse was last seen pacing the foyer of her unit block looking agitated

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/ne...akse-in-westmead/story-fni0cx12-1227039468200

all very odd IMO

 

[Oddsocks]

There are some good photos here, particularly at the end, of the fence (if it is the same one). Some of the information is incorrect (about her husband, I understand she is not married).

http://news.optuszoo.com.au/2014/08/28/murder-or-just-a-mystery-2/

When the news first broke it said her husband was screaming 'show me her face' ... so was that her brother screaming since she isn't married? The one who found her? If he found her you would think he had already seen her face.

That older man asks to see her face, not the brother. It's in one of the videos I can't remember which one


Eta sorry southaussie didn't see your response yet.
That man isn't her dad I don't think.

 

[SouthAussie]

That older man asks to see her face, not the brother. It's in one of the videos I can't remember which one


Eta sorry southaussie didn't see your response yet.
That man isn't her dad I don't think.

Oh .. the older man is not her dad? I thought media said he was her dad?

 

[Oddsocks]

There are photos of dad here
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/ne...akse-in-westmead/story-fni0cx12-1227039468200

 

[SouthAussie]

Here is a pic of the (older) man who said he yearned to see her face (not the younger presumably brother) ... and a pic of the stated dad, below.

Distraught Sahan Rajapakse, the brother of Amesha Rajapakse, and his father talk to the media on arrival at the scene.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/ne...akse-in-westmead/story-fni0cx12-1227039468200
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdBv5QWiNys

 

[SouthAussie]

There are photos of dad here
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/ne...akse-in-westmead/story-fni0cx12-1227039468200

Hahaha .... snap, Oddsocks! I can't really tell exactly. The hat doesn't help. OMG .. do you think the older man is the boyfriend? I'm still wondering about that - who is the boyfriend who went searching with the brother? Both men in the video shot look damp and muddy, as if they had been searching.

No ... I just listened to the video again ... it says "a father and a husband, both distraught, console each other as the news sink in ....." - and then the older guy says about yearning to see her face.

I think the older guy is the father. But who knows, in this ever-changing story?!

 

[Amee]

A man at the scene cried, "Please, please let me see her face", a short time after Ms Rajapakse was found.

Wearing muddied shoes, he fell to his knees as he hugged relatives in heavy rain.

Officers were seen searching the man's pockets before he got into a police car and was driven from the estate along with another distressed man.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/scream-he...t-westmead-20140827-108z6w.html#ixzz3BvT6wPg9