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

[MsAnais]

The other residents would be pretty freaked out right now:


The complex has put on extra security patrols with the hundreds of residents, especially women, in fear after the grisly discovery.

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

 

[MsAnais]

At least there are lots of cctv cameras around the complex:

Investigators have seized footage from the complex’s 74 CCTV cameras.

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

 

[MsAnais]

Sorry for posting so many in a row!!:blushing: But no one else is online right now!!:tantrum:

I just wanted to add that Amesha sounds like a lovely woman:


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

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

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


Blessings to Amesha. May she rest in peace.:rose:

 

[madamehdivision]

I just wanted to confirm that yes, the creek in question is behind the treeline depicted in the map put up by South Aussie. I know this because I went to High School also shown in the top right hand corner of the map. The creek is where us kids used to go to "get up to no good." I still frequent Westmead, given I work at one of the hospitals in the area. But I have not ventured to the creek since I was a kid, naturally. I'm quite keen for a quick resolution here. Also, as to the scarf being used to prop open the security door, it's quite possible the young lass didn't have a security pass. Those apartment blocks are generally overcrowded with migrant families with not enough security passes to go around.

 

[Oddsocks]

Thanks madamehdivision.
I wonder why they haven't released a photo of Amesha

 

[SouthAussie]

So Amesha wasn't married at all. She lived with her brother and father:

THE brother who found his younger sister Amesha Rajapakse drowned in a Western Sydney creek just metres from their home said she was the “cleverest” person he knew.

Still unable to comprehend how the 31-year-old died sometime on Tuesday night, Sahan Rajapakse said his sister had gone out to buy food around 7.30pm but never returned.

The pair lived at the Absolute Waterfront Apartments Monarco Westmead with their father.

......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

When I first heard about Amesha's death on TV news, they said that her brother and boyfriend had been out searching for Amesha on the night that she went missing .. presumably the Tuesday night.

So, if that is the dad and brother that we have been seeing in pics and video, I wonder who the boyfriend is. Was Amesha waiting for him when she was pacing back and forth that night? I wonder if the shops are close by, within easy walking distance.

 

[SouthAussie]

I also wonder what made the brother look in the creek for Amesha - an area where nobody goes, according to a neighbour. (Though, evidently a place where the youth of the area go to get up to no good, according to madamehdivision. )

Do we know when/what time Amesha was reported missing?

 

[MsAnais]

I just wanted to confirm that yes, the creek in question is behind the treeline depicted in the map put up by South Aussie. I know this because I went to High School also shown in the top right hand corner of the map. The creek is where us kids used to go to "get up to no good." I still frequent Westmead, given I work at one of the hospitals in the area. But I have not ventured to the creek since I was a kid, naturally. I'm quite keen for a quick resolution here. Also, as to the scarf being used to prop open the security door, it's quite possible the young lass didn't have a security pass. Those apartment blocks are generally overcrowded with migrant families with not enough security passes to go around.

Hi madameh!!:seeya: Long time no see!

Thanks for the local info. That's helpful to know.

 

[MsAnais]

I also wonder what made the brother look in the creek for Amesha - an area where nobody goes, according to a neighbour. (Though, evidently a place where the youth of the area go to get up to no good, according to madamehdivision. )

Do we know when/what time Amesha was reported missing?

Good question re when she was reported missing.

I've been having trouble understanding when they realised she was missing. The brother said he last saw her on Monday and rang her mobile on Tues when he was at work but that the father answered. None of it's very clear to me, time-wise.

Shall check out MSM again to try and comprehend the sequence of events.

 

[MsAnais]

Her brother found her around 7.30am yesterday.

Mr Rajapakse said he called her mobile phone from work on Tuesday but his father answered.

“I ask where Amesha is, he (my father) said she still not come. He said I will tell her to call you. Then I did not get a call so I called in an hour,” he said with his distraught father by his side, both in tears.

.....He said the last conversation he had with her was on Monday was “nothing special”.

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

 

[SouthAussie]

Good question re when she was reported missing.

I've been having trouble understanding when they realised she was missing. The brother said he last saw her on Monday and rang her mobile on Tues when he was at work but that the father answered. None of it's very clear to me, time-wise.

Shall check out MSM again to try and comprehend the sequence of events.

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?

 

[SouthAussie]

I don't also don't understand how she was last seen at 7.30pm on Tues night, then a scream was heard at 6.30am Wed morn and her brother found her body at 7.30am.........

Alot of mystery here.....

:yes: A LOT of mystery. :thinking:

 

[MsAnais]

So this article contradicts what was said in the earlier article about the brother last seeing her on Monday:

Amesha Rajapakse’s brother Sahan said today when he last saw her on Tuesday night she seemed fine and wasn’t upset by their conversation at all.

http://www.9news.com.au/national/20...ous-death-of-sydney-woman#HE3vjKdyPURAFXa4.99

I am confused!!!:thinking:

 

[MsAnais]

So it sounds like her world was quite circumscribed. That should narrow down the field of suspects for LE, hopefully:

“She had only a few friends because her whole life, her whole world is very small, like our family and our closest relatives,” Mr Rajapakse said.

www.9news.com.au/national/2014/08/2...ous-death-of-sydney-woman#HE3vjKdyPURAFXa4.99

 

[MsAnais]

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

 

[Xantara]

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?

 

[MsAnais]

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'm wondering how far the store was and in which direction.

And it is weird that she would leave the mobile. People tend to take their mobile everywhere.......(or maybe that's just me :lol

 

[Xantara]

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

 

[MsAnais]

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 Xantara for so clearly summing up everything I've been thinking!!:loveyou:

 

[MsAnais]

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.....)