NSW: Police almost saved tragic balcony woman: report
04 Nov 2008 4:29 AMNSW: Police almost saved tragic balcony woman: report
SYDNEY, Nov 4 AAP - Police nearly saved an 18-year-old woman forced to her death off a Sydney apartment block balcony after they received a Triple-0 telephone call begging for help.
News Ltd reports today that the distress call, made by one of four victims who were allegedly subjected to an hour-long rape ordeal, was received 25 minutes before the girl died.
The caller said: "You need to help me."
Although police went straight to the units at inner city Waterloo they wereunable to locate the apartment the call came from.
A Redfern police crew arrived at the building on the corner of McEvoy and Hunter Streets five minutes after the call at 1.20pm on Sunday, October 26.
Triple-0 operators had traced the phone number to the block, but when the officers arrived they found hundreds of apartments and were unable to find the person who had made the call, News Ltd reports.
Officers left the block at 1.30pm, but just 10 minutes later Triple-0 received a flurry of calls alerting police and ambulance officers that the 18-year-old student had fallen 25 metres.
Brendan David Dennison, 26 has been charged with rape and murder in relation to the incident. He is facing 21 charges over an hour-long string of sex attacks , which ended when the woman and her boyfriend fell from the inner-Sydney unit balcony.
The 19-year-old Korean man, suffered serious spinal injuries and multiple broken bones in the fall.
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