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

[MsAnais]

Yes, South Aussie, it was bucketing down with rain on Tuesday night.

Would you really duck out to the shops on foot to buy butter when it's pouring with rain?

 

[they'll get you]

The video at this link says that police seized and searched a family member before taking him away in a police car. I guess that may be standard procedure though? When someone's wife has been found dead for no apparent reason.

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

I'm confused? I was under the impression she was married.

Ms Rajapakse arrived from Sri Lanka in 2009 and was an IT graduate.
The Sinhalese Buddhist was not married.

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

 

[MsAnais]

I'm confused? I was under the impression she was married.

Ms Rajapakse arrived from Sri Lanka in 2009 and was an IT graduate.
The Sinhalese Buddhist was not married.

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

No, she's not married TGY. MSM got some facts wrong in the beginning.

 

[Xantara]

Do we know if Amesha worked?

I read that she was a university student when she came to Australia but I'm wondering what she was doing now.

I was just wondering about her network of people beyond the family. Was thinking that if she was secretly meeting someone maybe she knew them from work.....(all pure speculation now.....)

Not sure if I'm confusing what I thought I'd read, but my recollection is that she came to Australia in 2009 and that she worked in IT. She may well have studied here, but 2009 is a while back now, long enough to finish a degree. It was my impression that she did have a job, but it's also confusing because the brother reports he tried to contact her on Tuesday - presumably at home - when the father answered her mobile. Seems she wasn't at work that day?

 

[they'll get you]

So, Amesha went to the store without her mobile phone. Was the weather atrocious, bucketing down with rain, on Tuesday evening? Do any locals remember?

I live approx 20 Klm west of there & it was intermittent heavy rain.

 

[Xantara]

Obviously the other possibility is that she suicided. I wonder if she was depressed or upset before she passed?

I must say, given that it's such a brain teaser for police and there are no obvious physical injuries, suicide is something that crossed my mind too. Some msm reports are even outright saying that she drowned... It might explain why she left without an access card. The groceries thing was just an excuse to get out. Perhaps the pacing about in the lobby was as a result of her own anguish about what she planned to do, or perhaps there was some last minute indecision. Perhaps the scarf was put in the door to enable her to get back in, in case she had a last minute change of heart. The only thing I don't understand is how someone can drown in presumably not particularly deep water. There may have been water down there but I cant imagine it being a raging ? Unless someone with personal experience of that place can say otherwise?
Perhaps she had spoken about suicide to her family. Perhaps that is what drove them to look there? Although that is contradicted by the brother saying she appeared happy...
Just my own speculation...

 

[marlywings]

Nothing in reports so far today about the autopsy. Maybe tomorrow we'll hear further unless media release a report later tonight.

August 27, 2014

Police said they would not be able to determine what caused Ms Rajapakse's death until they received initial autopsy results on Thursday.

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/scream-he...t-westmead-20140827-108z6w.html#ixzz3BgLQWNuF

 

[Oddsocks]

Coles is a 5-10 min walk from the apartments, at the T intersection and it was raining on tuesday night.

 

[MsAnais]

Coles is a 5-10 min walk from the apartments, at the T intersection and it was raining on tuesday night.

Thank you Oddsocks! :seeya:

 

[SouthAussie]

Lots of confusing reporting...
The 'husband' turns out to be the brother.
Sounds like there was phone contact on the Tuesday, but weird how the father answer's Amesha's phone when the brother called...
Lots of trivial detail being reported about what the brother, father and Amesha apparently said to each other before she went missing... using gift cards etc (Daily Telegraph, 28 August). If that is indeed what the brother told media, always a bit sus when they start telling these sorts of details, 'too much information' type details...
Strange how she was apparently seen pacing around on Tuesday night in the lobby. I don't believe she really went out to buy milk etc, as she apparently told her father. If she had reasons to fear for her safety beforehand, why go out in the dark to buy groceries?
Issue with the scarf is bizarre too. Why did she not take an access card to go 'grocery shopping'? Even if there weren't enough cards to go around, the brother apparently was at work and the father remained at home. Surely she could have had access to a card, just to go out and buy a couple of things?
Why jam the door open with a SCARF?! Sounds like she was only planning to duck out for a minute or two, otherwise why would you prop a door unlocked like that. In a complex that size, other people would have gone in and out of that door while she was out 'buying groceries' and the door would most likely not have still been held unlocked by the scarf when she got back. I'm sure Amesha would have realised that.
So, the father and brother supposedly spend the night looking for her and then stumbled across her body the next morning? Why not report her missing earlier? What prompted them to look in a drain in a hard to access area behind their block, of all places, if all they supposedly knew was that she had headed out to buy groceries?
That tunnel/drain under re train line is not on the way to any shops...
Yes, the treeline is where the 'creek' is. I understand that usually it is a dry creek bed, but with all the rain, there was water there and also in the tunnel under the train line.
I also think it's weird how the father answered Amesha's phone...
Lots of things don't add up in this story.
I'm hoping the cctv footage that the police have seized will shed further light on this. Surely it would become apparent for how long that door remained propped open with the scarf.
Then there are the reports in msm of Amesha being found dead with a 'scarf wrapped around her neck'. That's weird too. Is that insinuating that this same scarf was subsequently found on her?

Thank you for this info, Xantara, and your thoughts. May I say, I now am officially skeptical and suspicious of this death.

- The creek/stormwater outlet was apparently waist-deep on police that were investigating there. It is a shortcut to nowhere.
- It was bucketing down, yet Amesha decided to pop out for a few things, with no phone in case there were delays or something went wrong (which it did).
- That scarf keeping the door from locking is bothering me too, definitely a VERY temporary measure as other passers-through would not leave it like that - what is the point in having a jarred open security door? They have their own security to worry about.
- The scarf around the neck, why is that being mentioned when no other clothing has been mentioned. Could this be a case of strangulation?
- Did MSM really get the husband/boyfriend info wrong? Is there a boyfriend?
- Was Amesha always seen in the company of her brother, so others assumed he was a husband/boyfriend?
- Why did a young woman living in a household of men have no lady friends? Was she allowed to have lady friends?
- Why did the media report her boyfriend and brother looked all night for Amesha? Her father does not look the age of a brother (or boyfriend).
- Why search for Amesha in a creek/stormwater outlet? Why not think she was in an accident, at the hospital, visiting someone, ran away, was abducted?

Who are these family members? Where are the women? Where are the photos of Amesha from this reportedly close and intimate family group?

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



Of course of my questions are speculative only ... but LOTS of somethings are not adding up here. :thinking:

 

[Oddsocks]

What I wonder is when she was going in and out of the security door was she going back into her unit? Or was she hanging around downstairs?
I don't think it's strange not to take a phone on a short trip to the shops. I often leave mine on charge while I go out. And I don't think it's strange that her dad answered a call coming from his son.

 

[they'll get you]

Does someone know how this Sri Lanka Sinhalese Buddhist religion works with their women/sisters?
Am I being politically incorrect to question the over protectiveness of male family members with their sisters?
Could she been scared of her brother? Was milk and butter something that her brother could pick up on the way home? Why didn't she have an access card.
Did she take a short cut in the dark through the creek not realising that it could be flooded? No.
It's not making a great deal of sense. The rain would have limited the bad types down the creek.

Ms Rajapakse arrived from Sri Lanka in 2009 and was an IT graduate.
One staff member at the unit block said Ms Rajapakse’s brother was a “complete mess”.

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

 

[SouthAussie]

Coles is a 5-10 min walk from the apartments, at the T intersection and it was raining on tuesday night.

Thank you! It is so nice to have some people on this thread who can help us out with the geography and features of the area!

 

[SouthAussie]

What I wonder is when she was going in and out of the security door was she going back into her unit? Or was she hanging around downstairs?
I don't think it's strange not to take a phone on a short trip to the shops. I often leave mine on charge while I go out. And I don't think it's strange that her dad answered a call coming from his son.

Yes, I often leave my phone behind too .. now that I don't have youngsters at home. But I generally take it if the weather is bad - just in case.

 

[MsAnais]

Thank you for this info, Xantara, and your thoughts. May I say, I now am officially skeptical and suspicious of this death.

- The creek/stormwater outlet was apparently waist-deep on police that were investigating there. It is a shortcut to nowhere.
- It was bucketing down, yet Amesha decided to pop out for a few things, with no phone in case there were delays or something went wrong (which it did).
- That scarf keeping the door from locking is bothering me too, definitely a VERY temporary measure as other passers-through would not leave it like that - what is the point in having a jarred open security door? They have their own security to worry about.
- The scarf around the neck, why is that being mentioned when no other clothing has been mentioned. Could this be a case of strangulation?
- Did MSM really get the husband/boyfriend info wrong? Is there a boyfriend?
- Was Amesha always seen in the company of her brother, so others assumed he was a husband/boyfriend?
- Why did a young woman living in a household of men have no lady friends? Was she allowed to have lady friends?
- Why did the media report her boyfriend and brother looked all night for Amesha? Her father does not look the age of a brother (or boyfriend)?
- Why search for Amesha in a creek/stormwater outlet? Why not think she was in an accident, at the hospital, visiting someone, ran away, was abducted?

Who are these family members? Where are the women? Where are the photos of Amesha from this reportedly close and intimate family group?

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



Of course of my questions are speculative only ... but LOTS of somethings are not adding up here. :thinking:

COMPLETELY agree SouthAussie!!! Something is definitely not sitting right with this whole thing......

 

[Oddsocks]

I sure hope they find something from the 74 CCTV cameras in the complex

 

[Oddsocks]

It's the "blood curdling scream" that makes me think accident or foul play and not suicide.

 

[MsAnais]

It's the "blood curdling scream" that makes me think accident or foul play and not suicide.

I couldn't work out if the scream was from Amesha or from her brother when he found her?

If it was Amesha, that was at 6.30am on the Wednesday morning - where had she been all night?

 

[marlywings]

Guys let's not go too far down the "speculating" road at this stage thanks.

The autopsy report will give police an indication as to what has happened to poor Amesha.

 

[SouthAussie]

Sorry marly .. too many thoughts swirling. Will try to keep them to myself until further info is released.