Woman dead, another taken to hospital after CBD stabbing
The man accused of terrorising Sydney’s CBD on a stabbing rampage, is alleged to have first killed a young sex worker inside her apartment.A woman, believed to be a sex worker, has been found with her throat cut in an apartment building metres away from where a man went on an afternoon stabbing rampage in Sydney’s CBD.
Police said the man attempted to stab “multiple people” and was arrested minutes after he allegedly plunged a knife into a 41-year-old woman’s back at a city hotel.
A group of men, who NSW Police Commissioner Mick Fuller described as “highest order heroes”, chased him through city streets before they were able to tackle him and pin his body down with chairs and milk crates.
The accused knifeman has since been named as Mert Ney, a 21-year-old man from Marayong, near Blacktown in Sydney’s west.
Police confirmed a 21-year-old woman, believed to be the first victim of this afternoon’s rampage, was found dead in the apartment block Clarence House just after 3pm.
Police officers outside an apartment building on Clarence St. Picture: Dean LewinsSource:AAP
The Daily Telegraph reported the young woman was found with her throat cut.
Speaking to reporters this afternoon, Commissioner Fuller said Mr Ney was in the Clarence St apartment for a “business purpose” before the woman was allegedly murdered by him.
Nine News reported the woman is believed to be a sex worker.
Police also allege the apartment death was linked to the knifeman’s afternoon stabbing rampage where the 21-year-old allegedly plunged his knife into the back of one woman as she sat in a Sydney pub.
Mr Ney had been living with his parents before the alleged attack, had a “history of mental health” and had a thumbstick with information about crimes of “mass casualties” including recent ones in the US and New Zealand.
The incident is not related to terrorism, Commissioner Fuller said.
The accused knifeman is an escaped mental patient, according to The Daily Telegraph.
NSW Health would not confirm if the man arrested by police had recently escaped from a mental health centre.
“We can’t comment at this stage, it’s a police matter,” a department spokesman said.
Police are at Mr Ney’s western Sydney home and are expected to spend the night there investigating.
Clarence St Cyclery, the shop that sits directly below the apartments where the woman was found dead, was forced to close this afternoon after police set up crime scenes in front and behind the shop.
The Clarence St Cyclery employee said he’d also seen a number of riot squad police run upstairs.
News.com.au has seen emergency crews surrounding the cordoned-off building.
Earlier, police and ambulance officers found a woman with a single stab wound to her back at the nearby Hotel CBD.
She was taken to St Vincent’s Hospital in a stable condition, emergency services confirmed.
The woman was photographed at the scene on a stretcher being put in an ambulance by paramedics. She was sitting up and appeared to be conscious.
Her condition was described as “not life-threatening”.
The hotel, on the corner of York and King St, was in lockdown as police inspected the crime scene.
Another woman, with a scarf wrapped around her hand, reported to The Rocks Police Station however police have since confirmed she was not a victim.
NSW Police Superintendent Gavin Wood told reporters there was a “number of attempted stabbings by the same offender”.
“Bearing in mind we have multiple crime scenes and we are in the infancy stage of this investigation,” he said.
“It is a serious and significant investigation that I want to put out there but I also want to put out there most importantly, the threat has been negated.”
The man was pinned to the ground. Picture: Channel 7Source:Channel 7
A man who was involved in the alleged offender’s arrest earlier suggested more people had been stabbed.
“You f**king piece of s**t, do you know how many people you just stabbed you dog?” the man said in a video taken by 7 News reporter Andrew Denney.
When questioned by firefighters as they pinned the man down, the witness was asked what he’d seen happen.
“He just stabbed a chick in broad daylight. He stabbed a chick, came running down and he just stabbed people,” he said.
Right before his arrest, the man was filmed jumping onto cars on the corner of King and Clarence Street and screaming out.
“Shoot me, shoot me in the f**king head, I’ve got a f**king gun,” the man was filmed saying in the street.
Emergency services rushed to the CBD about 2pm this afternoon after reports the man was walking along York St armed with a knife.
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