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The body of Chinese woman Qi Yu, who disappeared last month, has been found in bushland north of Sydney. A body believed to be Chinese woman Qi Yu has been removed from bushland alongside a busy Sydney highway.
Yu was last seen by friends at a Campsie share house in the city’s south-west on 8 June. Her body was found about one kilometre off the M1 motorway exit at Mount Kuring-gai. The body, reportedly wrapped, was found near an emergency stop area on the M1 highway near Mount Kuring-gai about 8.30am on Wednesday. It was removed after 3pm.
Police search teams, supported by cadaver dogs, helicopters and marine units, have spent weeks scouring vast tracts of bushland and waterways around the area for signs of her body. Yu, 28, was last seen by friends at her Campsie share house in the city’s southwest on the evening of Friday 8 June.
Phone records suggest Yu’s white Toyota Corolla travelled north to the area around Mount Kuring-gai, Berowra and Cowan and then back to Campsie between 8.30pm and midnight on the night she disappeared. Her devastated parents flew to Sydney in the following days. They refused to believe she had been killed even after police arrested and charged her 19-year-old housemate Shuo Dong with murder.
Her 2016 model hatchback was later found dumped at Burwood in Sydney’s west the same weekend she disappeared. Phone records suggested Yu’s white Toyota Corolla was driven north to the area around Mount Kuring-gai, Berowra and Cowan and back to Campsie between 8.30pm and midnight the night she disappeared.
Yu’s parents - who flew out from China in the days after she went missing - have been distributing flyers at Sydney train stations which read: “Looking for Missing Girl Qi Yu” as they struggled to come to terms with their daughter’s suspected murder. The 2016 model hatchback was later found dumped at Burwood in Sydney’s west the same weekend she disappeared.
The local Berowa community also held a candlelight vigil and public prayer for the 28-year-old at the end of June to show support for Yu’s family and the searchers. Forensic investigators and detectives remain at the scene on Wednesday collecting evidence.
Berowra Heights local Kate Glenn said the search activity had been distressing. The sliver of bushland is wedged between the highway and train tracks leading to Mount Kuring-gai station just 150 metres away, which is plastered with posters appealing for help to find the missing 28-year-old.
“Explaining this to our children - why there are horses, dogs and choppers, SES everywhere for the past few weeks is very confronting,” she said previously. One northbound lane of the highway has been closed, causing traffic to queue more than two kilometres south of the crime scene.
Police search teams, supported by cadaver dogs, helicopters and marine units, have spent weeks scouring vast tracts of bushland and waterways around the area for signs of Yu’s body.
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