Disturbing details emerge about final moments of mother found dead in a burnt-out car in Beverley Hills after horror kidnapping
A Sydney woman who was found dead in a burnt-out car had reportedly been forced to strip naked in the driveway of her Bankstown home by her kidnappers.
Thi Kim Tran, 45, was abducted by five men on Thursday night who also severely assaulted her eight-year-old son with a baseball bat, which required him to be rushed to hospital and placed into an induced coma.
Her body was found in the burned shell of an SUV in the nearby suburb of Beverly Hills 6kms away.
Ms Tran is understood not to have had any direct links to Sydney’s drug gangs but a major police line of inquiring is looking into whether she was associated with anyone who is connected.
NSW Opposition police spokesman Paul Toole hit out at Premier Chris Minns and Police Minister Yasmin Catley who are yet to speak about about the shocking crime.
‘I can’t believe neither the government, nor the Police Minister, have gone out and spoken on this to ensure the community of Bankstown know they are safe,’ Mr Toole told The Daily Telegraph.
‘Everybody in that area would be living in fear thinking they could be the next victims of these thugs.’
Ms Tran had been forced from her home at gunpoint into a waiting black SUV, which sped off while some of the gang members trailed behind in a white sedan.
Detectives believe Ms Tran was murdered in a targeted execution over a gangland drug heist
CCTV footage (pictured) showed the terrifying moment a group of five dragged Sydney mother-of-two Thi Kim Tran from her suburban home at gunpoint
Her abduction was reported to officers at Bankstown Police Station about 10.30pm.
Emergency services were called to Welfare Avenue in the neighbouring suburb of Beverly Hills about 6km away an hour later amid reports a dark SUV had been torched in the street.
After extinguishing the blaze, authorities discovered Ms Tran’s remains inside the wreckage.
Police have managed to contact Ms Tran’s husband, who had been away on business interstate, and he is understood to have since reunited with their two sons in hospital.
The eight-year-old child remains in intensive care with serious head trauma, though it’s understood he is in a stable condition.
A manhunt is underway for Ms Tran’s killers along with the person who ordered it.
Ms Tran’s body was later found in the burned out wreckage of a car about 6km away
There is no suggestion Ms Tran was involved in any criminality – or that her husband was in any way involved in her abduction or execution, nor the reasons behind it.
However, detectives believe it was a targeted hit and suspect Ms Tran was marked for death after someone close to her ripped off a drug-manufacturing gang.
The Sydney Morning Herald reported detectives had already managed to trace the torched car and discovered it had been reported stolen from inner Sydney earlier this year.
Investigators believe the car had been stolen by a gang of thieves that provides vehicles known as ‘kill cars’ to be used in underworld drive-by shootings and executions.
