Vic: Man charged with strangulation murder to face court

AAP General News (Australia)
04-29-2008
Vic: Man charged with strangulation murder to face court

A man charged with the strangulation murder of his girlfriend in her Melbourne flat
will appear in a Melbourne court today.

The 35-year-old woman's body was discovered at her home in a block of flats in Toorak
Road .. in wealthy Toorak in Melbourne's inner east .. about 8.30 (AEST) yesterday morning.

Homicide squad Detective Sergeant PAUL TREMAIN says a man turned himself in at Prahran
police station later in the morning.

Thirty-six-year-old DAVID PIPER .. of Toorak .. was arrested and taken to the St Kilda
Road police complex .. where he was questioned through the day.

He appeared in a brief out-of-sessions hearing at the police complex last night ..

and was remanded in custody to appear in the Melbourne Magistrates' Court today.

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KEYWORD: PIPER (MELBOURNE)

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