Three women charged in connection with fatal stabbing of Sitaleki Filihiahekava on Marrickville Rd, Marrickville
Three women have now been charged in relation to the fatal stabbing of a rugby league player outside a Guzman y Gomez in Sydney’s inner west. Here’s what we know.
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Three more people have been charged following the fatal stabbing of Sitaleki Filihiahekava in Sydney’s inner west, while a drill rapper faces murder allegations.
Mr Filihiahekava was stabbed to death outside a Guzman y Gomez Mexican restaurant on Marrickville Rd at Marrickville after having dinner with his family about 7.40pm on September 23.
Inner West Police Area Command officers and NSW Ambulance paramedics performed CPR on Mr Filihiahekava, a talented rugby league player, but the 32-year-old died at the scene.
On September 25, following a two-day manhunt, 31-year-old Jacob Tammer-Spence, who uses rap moniker Snoee Badman, was arrested in Concord.
Tammer-Spence was taken to Burwood Police Station and charged with murder.
Bail was refused and Tammer-Spence is due to face Burwood Local Court on November 20.
Earlier, Inner West police’s Acting Commander Ben Kennis said Mr Filihiahekava was having dinner with family on the night and the alleged attack was likely “somewhat targeted and not random.”
NSW Police revealed on Wednesday a 55-year-old woman had been arrested at a home on Harrow Rd, Bexley about 7.30am that morning.
She was charged with being an accessory after the fact to murder.
The woman was granted conditional bail to face Sutherland Local Court on November 26.
Two more women, aged 29 and 62, were arrested at a property on Diadem Lane, Lismore property in Northern Rivers NSW about an hour-and-a-half later.
Both were taken to Lismore Police Station and Amma Cust, 29, was charged with being an accessory after the fact to murder.
She was refused bail to face Lismore Local Court on Thursday, but did not appear.
Her case was adjourned to Burwood Local Court for a bail review on November 14.
The 62-year-old woman has been charged with concealing a serious indictable offence.
She was granted bail to face the same court on December 2.