Housemate from hell Tsai-Wei Hung’s admits violent rampage after eviction from Clyde North rental

A former tenant has admitted to waging a months-long campaign against her ex-housemates after being booted from a Clyde North rental, firebombing the sharehouse and even torching their cars.

An image of Tsai-Wei Hung released by police after a warrant was issued. Picture: Eyewatch Casey Police Service Area

Housemate from hell Tsai-Wei Hung has admitted she firebombed her former sharehouse, torched her roommates’ cars and tried to run them over.

Hung, who is reportedly a Taiwanese backpacker, beamed into Melbourne Magistrates’ Court via video link from custody on Wednesday where she pleaded guilty to 11 charges including arson, property damage and reckless conduct endangering serious injury.

“Guilty,” she said when asked for her plea.

Hung, 32, waged a months-long retribution campaign against her housemates following her eviction from their Clyde North rental on March 10 last year.

Footage played to court last week showed Hung striking bollards as she tried to run her housemates over, pouring petrol over their vehicles before setting them ablaze and lobbing molotov cocktails at the front door.

The carnage began just hours after Tsai-Wei Hung was kicked out of the Clyde North property. Picture: Facebook

The carnage began just hours after she was kicked out of the Viewbank Rd property when she returned and egged the garage.

When her housemates confronted her, Hung tried to run them down with her car.

Mobile phone footage filmed by a housemate showed a vehicle driving at speed down a narrow laneway before smashing through bollards and continuing to chase them across a lawn.

The housemates sought refuge inside before Hung rammed the garage door, causing serious damage to both the door and vehicles parked inside.

The following afternoon, she returned, gaining access to the garage via the damaged door before she smashed the cars’ windscreens.

Hung went to police later that day, telling officers she had been abused by her housemates.

Prosecutors said those allegations were still being investigated.

She was charged and bailed, with police also obtaining personal safety intervention orders banning Hung from going near or communicating with her ex-housemates.

An arrest warrant was later issued after she failed to attend court.

One of the destroyed cars. Picture: Facebook

About 3am on June 10, Hung returned to the property and torched her housemates’ cars and threw molotov cocktails at the front door.

“She’s back, she’s back,” her housemates yelled after they were woken by explosions.

Security footage played in court showed two vehicles going up in flames and a dark hooded figure lobbing the incendiary weapons at the front door.

The next day, Hung sent a message demanding $30,000 for the violence to stop, with more molotov cocktails found at her home after her arrest.

She also went to another property in Berwick on June 12, where she tried to light the home on fire while yelling “just go die” and “go to hell”.

Charges were also laid after she sold a rental car to an unsuspecting Facebook buyer for $8900.

Hung, who has been on remand since her arrest last June, will face a pre-sentence hearing in the County Court later this year.