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Chinese student charged with cabbie murder
- By Katherine Danks
- June 21, 2007
A CHINESE student charged with murdering a Sydney taxi driver was arrested after trying to hide four bags of bloodstained clothing and knives, a court has been told.The four shopping bags, found by cleaners in the library of Macquarie University, also allegedly contained a watch belonging to the 67-year-old driver Robert Woodger.
Xinfei Gu, 22, of Eastwood, had been found hiding nearby by detectives, Ryde Local Court was told today.
Mr Gu, an accountancy student, was refused bail on the charge of murder, but police have been unable to find Mr Woodger's body.
The taxi, which contained bloodstained clothing, a knife, a tomahawk with a price tag attached and gaffer tape, was found abandoned by a rubbish truck driver on a street at Eastwood, in Sydney's northwest, about 6.15am (AEST) yesterday.
A police fact sheet tendered to the court today said “pools of blood” were found in the taxi's interior, on the driver's door and on the roadway.
A bloodied footprint was found on the back seat.
Police do not believe Mr Woodger, a married man from Coogee, is still alive.
Detectives attached to Strike Force Russellton, established to investigate the murder, arrested Mr Gu about 12.30am today.
Police said when they interviewed Mr Gu, who spoke poor English, he said he had been stopped by a man, who was not Mr Woodger, but who was driving the taxi.
After a short conversation this man had asked him (Mr Gu) to drive the taxi.
Mr Gu said he got in the car, started driving, and afterwards noticed the man was covered in blood.
So he pulled up the car and fled.
Police said CCTV footage from the cab showed Mr Woodger having an animated conversation with a man in the back seat between 3.17am and 3.59am.
Forensic analysis is yet to be carried out on the bloodstained taxi and Mr Gu denies any knowledge of the murder.
When Mr Gu was arrested, he was allegedly found hiding near the shopping bags, with injuries to his fingers.
When asked about the wounds, Mr Gu allegedly said: “He had a knife and grab (sic) the knife and it cut my fingers”.
When asked what he did after that, Mr Gu allegedly said: “I opened the door and ran away to home”.
Magistrate Jennifer Betts was told Mr Gu had planned to leave Australia on the day of the murder and that police had found his bags packed in the garage of his boarding house.
Ms Betts refused a bail application by Mr Gu, who represented himself.
He was remanded in custody to face Central Local Court on June 25.
最新回复
他也是学accounting的学生。
Sydney taxi driver's body found
Saturday Jun 23 20:06 AEST
The body of a Sydney taxi driver has been found on a vacant block, three days after his abandoned cab was discovered with bloodied clothes, a knife, tomahawk and gaffer tape inside.
The body of Robert Woodger, 67 was found near the intersection of Balaclava and Blaxland roads less than 2km from the street in Eastwood where his abandoned cab was found about 6.15am (AEST) on Wednesday.
Police have sectioned off the area in Sydney's north west as their murder investigation continues.
A Chinese student, Xinfei Gu, 22, of Eastwood, has been charged with Mr Woodger's murder.
Saddest woman in Sydney meets PM
Photo: Jacky Ghossein
Erin O'Dwyer
June 24, 2007
IT was supposed to be a routine meet and greet in the electorate. Instead, Prime Minister John Howard found himself with his arms around Pam Woodger, a grieving wife who was about to learn she had become a widow.
The wife of cab driver Robert Woodger was stoic yesterday as she attended her grandchildren's fete at St Kevin's Primary School in Eastwood.
But she broke down when Mr Howard happened past and offered her his hand, not knowing who she was.
Having shared her tragic story, the pair parted, and, soon after, she received the news she knew must come - that her husband's body had been found, not far from where he was killed while driving nightshift to earn extra money to treat her to a holiday in Bali.
就是我工作的學校。。
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的士司機的孫子就是我學生阿。。。。。。。。。
。。。。。。。。好可憐
不知道星期一的local court判得怎样了
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一大把年纪了，没有好好安享晚年，反而招来横祸.....那个GU，大半夜的出来混，很难让人相信是个好人啊