On January 16, 2014, 34-year-old Darren Galea left work at about 4.30pm. He stopped at a flower shop to buy some orchid bulbs, his only hobby.
At home in his small South Wentworthville bungalow, he laid his uniform on the back of a chair.
Over the next four to six hours, police believe Mr Galea was kidnapped by two men either from his home or when he travelled elsewhere bound by the wrists, taken to a small reserve at the Duck River in Auburn and shot in the head...
Ballistics testing on the bullet revealed the same gun was used in a drug-related shooting of a man in Auburn in 2012 and a Nomads bikie gang-related drive-by in Merrylands in 2011 targeting the Tajjour family, cousins of the notorious Ibrahim family.
Yet, there is nothing in Mr Galea's life to point towards a murder motive. He had no debts, no links to criminals, no social circle and no substantial relationships beyond his family.
