Three people arrested after police discover suspected body parts

ABC NEWS (Australia)

An investigation is underway after the discovery of what are believed to be human remains at a property at Glenorie in Sydney’s rural north.

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00:00I'm standing here on Glenys Place, just behind me is the police cordon here in the Glenory

00:07area, which is just outside of Sydney.

00:10It's a small rural community and just after 11.30 this morning, New South Wales Police

00:16made the discovery of what they believe to be the human remains of someone at an address

00:21on that road behind me.

00:23Our news chopper a little later this afternoon around 3pm managed to catch some images of

00:29three people being led away by police in handcuffs.

00:34Just after 3pm those three people was two men aged 24 and 34, as well as a female aged

00:4235 and they were led away to the Castle Hill Police Station.

00:48And that's the station where police also held a press conference at 4pm this afternoon and

00:53it's where they gave us a little bit more information in relation to this incident.

00:57Currently there are two crime scenes that they are looking at.

01:01There's the place in which they found those human remains but there's also the house in

01:07which the property is on.

01:11So police are looking very closely at those two locations of interest.

01:16They also told us that the remains that they found are thought to have been of a missing

01:21man from the Nepean region who went missing last night.

01:24His family initially tipped off police telling them that there was perhaps a place of interest

01:31for them to look at.

01:32That place of interest is behind me on Glenys Place and it's there that they arrived and

01:38upon initial searches discovered those remains.

01:42They also told us that the person that was found is also known to those three people

01:47that were arrested.

01:48Here's what the New South Wales Police had to say during that press conference.

01:53A couple of hundred metres of the address that police had attended to, it's a bit of

01:56a rural area and it was within a paddock that police during the course of their canvass

02:01and those initial inquiries did come to identify what they believed to be a body in the middle

02:08of that paddock.

02:10It is covered by some items at the moment which is what's limiting us from being able

02:14to confirm that it is human remains.

02:18And Digby, what have some of the locals had to say out there?

02:21Yeah, well since we arrived we're standing in the driveway of one neighbour who lives

02:27directly opposite that police cordon and he came out and talked to us and said that this

02:31is usually a quiet place.

02:33Usually people, he hasn't really ever experienced anything like this before, he's been living

02:38here for three years.

02:40He said that a number of the properties in this area are horse farmers living on lifestyle

02:44blocks.

02:45A little bit further up the road to my left I spoke to an elderly couple who have lived

02:51in the region for over 50 years and they said they've never experienced anything like it

02:56and that this community is a very tight-knit community, they catch up every Tuesday night

03:01and it's sort of a big surprise for them.

03:04Here's what those two elderly couple and the neighbour here had to say.

03:08I don't think there's been this much action in Glenora for a long time but there's not

03:14many.

03:15I mean it's a dead-end street, all the properties down the end are horse properties and people

03:19pretty much keep to themselves and lots of people walk at night because it's a really

03:22quiet area and pretty safe.

03:24They didn't say Gleness Place, just that in Glenory there was the remains of a body and

03:33that sounded so gruesome.

03:37So at this point there's no suggestion that this is related to any organised crime group.

03:43Since we've been standing here the police forensic team have come in in their white

03:47van and they've made their way through to those two crime scenes where they'll conduct

03:52a little bit of a deeper search into trying to figure out what might have exactly gone

03:58wrong here but we'll certainly keep you up to date as the night goes on but it seems

04:03like it'll be a long one for the authorities here as they figure out what exactly went

04:08wrong.

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