‘Level of violence unheard of’: police suspect body in burnt-out car in Sydney was allegedly kidnapped woman

Police fear a body in a burnt-out car in Sydney’s south overnight is that of a Bankstown woman allegedly abducted from a home on Thursday, in what they have called a “horrendous” crime of “unprecedented” violence.Emergency services attended a residential street in Beverly Hills at about 11.30pm on Thursday night, after reports of a car fire.Fire crews put out the blaze, but when police examined the destroyed vehicle, they located a body in the back seat.While the body had not been formally identified, police said on Friday morning that they suspected it belonged to a 45-year-old Bankstown woman whom they were told had been kidnapped just hours before the discovery. Sign up for the Afternoon Update: Election 2025 email newsletterSupt Rodney Hart, commander of Bankstown police area command, said it was a “horrendous” and “confronting” crime.“The level of violence is unheard of, but I want to reassure the community that we strongly believe that this is a targeted incident and that this is...