On Sunday, sometime after 11am, a man named Harshwardhan Narde is seen on CCTV footage checking out of a hotel in Sydney’s CBD.
According to The Daily Telegraph, he hands the hotel porter a large, heavy suitcase, which is dutifully placed into the boot of his car.
It is believed that suitcase carried the body of 32-year-old Sydney dentist, Preethi Reddy.
The alarm was sounded on Sunday evening, with police seeking any information on the missing woman who was last seen purchasing two bottles of water from McDonalds on George St at 2:15am on Sunday morning.
Reddy was due to meet her family for a late breakfast, and spoke with them at 11am. But she never showed up.
Suspicion began to arise over Reddy’s ex-boyfriend, 34-year-old Harshwardhan Narde. A fellow dentist, the pair had spent Saturday together at a conference, and then, as it would later emerge, stayed together on Saturday night.
According to The Sydney Morning Herald, Reddy was apprehensive about seeing Narde. Their relationship had been a tumultuous one, spanning several years.
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I can’t count the number of times you have been told that these articles need a trigger warning, particularly if you are going to go into a full discussion of suicide halfway through. It’s not hard it’s standard media ethics.
Please don’t psychoanalyse that guy. He was a coward that knew he would be done for her murder. I feel only for Dr Reddys family and the truck driver.
A coward but an intelligent man nevertheless. There is no point in being brave unless you get something in return for your trouble. Make provision for a swift and humane death penalty as punishment for murder (as opposed to making someone agonize many years in jail) and people will stop behaving like this.