Mengmei ‘Michelle’ Leng’s horrific final moments before her murder have been revealed as police thrust an additional 27 charges on her accused killer uncle.
The 25-year-old university student’s naked body was found with more than 30 stab wounds floating in the Snapper Point blowhole on the NSW Central Coast on April 24.
Police charged Derek Barrett, 27, later that month with the murder of his niece, who he lived with, in what investigators described was a “very violent attack”.
Detectives laid the extra charges on Barrett today at Burwood Local Court. It is alleged they discovered images of Leng naked with duct tape tied around her wrists and strapped over her mouth, Fairfax Media reports.
Police say the photos were found on a phone linked to Barrett.
Barrett is also accused of photographing a sleeping child and of filming himself masturbating over the young girl and Leng on several separate occasions prior to Leng’s death.
Barrett's additional charges include five counts of committing an act of indecency, 17 of filming a person's private parts without consent and two of installing a device to film.
He is also charged with two counts of filming a person in a private act without consent and of detaining for advantage.
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how does someone get to be so depraved?
Why are you using apostrophes around 'murdered' in the title? She WAS murdered, the apostrophes Imply she wasn't.