Newlywed nurse seen dangling from balcony after ‘raised voices’ were heard on triple-0 call

The family of Deekshya Dahal, 39, a newlywed nurse, who was seen dangling from a seventh floor balcony, said she died in a “terrible accident”, as police conduct a “complex” investigation into what happened.

A newlywed nurse who was seen dangling from a seventh floor balcony just hours after “raised voices” were heard on a Triple-0 call made from inside her apartment, died in a “terrible accident”, her family said.

Deekshya Dahal, 39, suffered catastrophic injuries when she plunged from the Parramatta complex, where she lived with her husband, at about 1.45am last Thursday.

Just two hours before the nurses’ death, a Triple-0 call was made from Ms Dahal’s mobile phone where police revealed only background noise could be heard and raised voices.

A Triple-0 operator returned the call and spoke with a man in the unit, believed to be Ms Dahal’s husband Labrinda Subedi, 40, and told him police would attend the River Rd premises throughout the night to check on everyone.

Sydney nurse Deekshya Dahal, 39, who plunged to her death from a balcony in Parramatta on January 2 2025.

But at 1.45am, a passer-by desperately called police after spotting a woman hanging from a balcony.

When officers arrived within one minute of the call, Ms Dahal had already fallen. She was found lying in a garden bed with critical injuries and died at the scene.

Mr Subedi was taken in for questioning by detectives, but he was released hours later without being charged.

Ms Dahal with husband her husband Labrinda Subedi on their wedding day. Mr Subedi was interviewed by police after his wife’s tragic death, but not charged.

At the couple’s apartment on Tuesday, Mr Subedi’s family told The Daily Telegraph he was “a broken man” over his wife’s death, and said there were no suspicious circumstances.

“It was just a terrible, terrible accident,” Mr Subedi’s brother-in-law Sushant said.

“Labrinda, he is a broken man … they were in love, not long married, very happy … planned to have children”.

“Now he has to plan a funeral,” Sushant said.

The relative said Ms Dahal worked as a registered nurse, and that the couple was recently married in Nepal.

Forensic officers on the seventh-floor balcony that Ms Dahal plunged from. Picture: NewsWire/Gaye Gerard

Emergency services were called to a high-rise unit block in River Rd about 1.40am on January 2. Picture: NewsWire/Gaye Gerard

On Ms Dahal’s social media accounts, she shared pictures of the happy day, with a caption that simply said “Love of my life”.

NSW Police Detective Superintendent Barry Vincent said Ms Dahal’s death was a “complex” investigation and that it was not the first time police had interacted with the couple.

Two weeks before Christmas last year, police applied for an AVO against Ms Dahal to protect Mr Subedi.

An interim order was made by a local court magistrate on December 10 and was due to be mentioned again in court in March.

A neighbour in the building said detectives knocked at his door asking if he often heard arguments inside the couple’s apartment.

“I said I didn’t … if I saw them, sometimes in the lift or foyer, all happy,” the neighbour said.

Police at the scene where Ms Dahal died after falling from the seventh floor. Picture: NewsWire/Gaye Gerard

A strike force had been established to investigate the circumstances of Ms Dahal’s death, as well as the two-hour delay between the first call and police attending the scene but Supt Vincent said the initial Triple-0 call didn’t warrant an emergency response.

One line of inquiry is whether Ms Dahal climbed onto the balcony during an argument then accidentally fell.

CCTV cameras inside the complex, as well as ones from neighbouring premises, have been seized by police.

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Originally published as Newlywed nurse seen dangling from balcony after ‘raised voices’ were heard on triple-0 call