Man accused of murdering partner in apartment in Sydney’s inner west
This article is more than 1 month oldDiogo De Oliveira, 40, was charged with domestic violence murder and denied bail after police found woman’s body in Chiswick unit
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A man accused of murdering his partner in a Sydney apartment has been refused bail as investigators work to determine the woman’s cause of death.
Police were called to a unit in Chiswick in Sydney’s inner west after reports of a domestic incident about 9.50pm on Saturday.
Officers arrived to find the body of a woman inside the property, New South Wales police said in a statement on Monday.
The woman, believed to be in her 40s, has not been formally identified.
Diogo De Oliveira was arrested at the scene and taken to Burwood police station where he was charged with domestic violence murder.
The 40-year-old appeared before Burwood local court on Monday where he was refused bail.
He will appear in the same court on 24 January.
A postmortem will be conducted to determine the cause of the woman’s death.
The premier, Chris Minns, said there were 30,000 reported instances of domestic violence every year in NSW and there were more than 6,500 incidents of sexual assault.
“Those numbers are increasing, not decreasing. So we all need to do more,” he told reporters in Sydney.
In Australia, the crisis support service Lifeline is on 13 11 14 and the national family violence counselling service is on 1800 737 732. In the UK, Samaritans can be contacted on freephone 116 123 and the domestic abuse helpline is 0808 2000 247. In the US, the suicide prevention lifeline is 988 and the domestic violence hotline is 1-800-799-SAFE (7233). Other international helplines can be found via www.befrienders.org
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