Police detail Qi Yu’s final movements in renewed appeal

NEW clues have revealed the final movements of a murdered Sydney woman who mysteriously disappeared last week.

DETECTIVES have revealed the final movements of a murdered young Sydney woman who mysteriously disappeared last week.

In a desperate second appeal for information, NSW Police today said Qi Yu left home at about 8.30pm last Friday, the day she was last seen alive.

The body of Ms Yu, a 28-year-old from China, has still not been found, but her teenage housemate has been charged with her murder.

Now it has been revealed Ms Yu left her Campsie home in the city’s south west in her white 2016 Toyota Corolla, and, from there, detectives believe she headed north.

A spokeswoman for NSW Police this morning said the car was driven an hour north towards the bushland around the Berowra, Mount Kuring-Gai and Cowan area between 8.30pm and 12am on the night Ms Yu went missing.

Shuo Dong at Burwood Local Court. Picture: (AAP Image/Chris Pavlich

Ms Yu has been missing for a week.

The car was then mysteriously returned and dumped at Burwood, just a short drive away from Ms Yu’s Campsie home.

On Wednesday, 19-year-old Shou Dong was taken to Campsie Police Station upon his release from hospital charged with murder in relation to the disappearance.

Officers, marine units and dogs are now searching bushland in northern Sydney and appealing for anyone who saw the missing woman’s car that night.

“(The car) may have been parked on the roadway, or in a car park or bushland, a boat ramp, or somewhere that might assist us in narrowing down a search,” a spokeswoman for Campsie Police told reporters this morning.

Ms Yu’s shared house. Picture: Ben Graham

“Belongings or any sort of female items of clothing may assist us. That’s why we’re appealing for people who may be out and about this weekend, whether they are bush walking or mountain biking or something like that, if they come across any of that type of material, to please contact Crime Stoppers or Campsie Police.”

Mr Dong was a no-show for his Burwood Court date on the same day and it is understood he refused to undergo police forensic procedures.

Police told 9 News his refusal is “setting the matter back a substantial amount in relation to DNA evidence”.

The car may have looked like this.

A neighbour who lives directly next door to her home told news.com.au Ms Yu was exceptionally quiet and a “kind” person.

The upset neighbour said she often wouldn’t see Ms Yu for weeks on end and, when she did, Ms Yu would simply bow her head and politely say “hello”.

Ms Yu was seen by friends on Friday at her shared house on Loch Street in Campsie on Friday evening, according to New South Wales Police.

The last anybody heard from her was when she made contact with family in her native China at about 7.15pm on that very same evening. The next morning her friends found her room empty and reported her missing.

Police describe Ms Yu’s vehicle as a white 2016 model Toyota Corolla with NSW registration plates DLK 13P. It was found at Lindsay Street, Burwood.