Overview
- The stabbing outside a Waterloo unit on August 18 left 34‑year‑old Blain Locke with fatal wounds and a 35‑year‑old woman with cuts to her face after a confrontation in front of the building.
- Two 18‑year‑old men were arrested in Toowoomba and extradited to New South Wales and a 20‑year‑old was arrested in Redfern; all three have been charged with murder and related wounding offences.
- Police say one of the accused was 17 at the time and appeared in Children’s Court where bail was refused, while the other suspects did not seek bail and are remanded with return dates set for December.
- NSW Police described the attack as a senseless act of brutal violence, said the victim did not personally know the alleged offenders, and said investigators are probing possible wider associations between the groups involved.
- Separately, ACT Policing has charged a 29‑year‑old over an August 9 Lyneham break‑in in which a man was stabbed in the head and shot in the leg, and police are seeking information about two other people believed to be involved.