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Footage has emerged of a car believed to have been driven by a western Sydney taekwondo instructor on the night he allegedly murdered a young family.
Police on Wednesday night charged Kwang Kyung Yoo, 49, with the alleged triple murder of Min Cho, 41, her husband Steven, 39, and their seven-year-old son.
He remains at Westmead Hospital under police guard and with a bedside court hearing scheduled for Thursday.
The charges were filed nearly 48 hours after Yoo showed up at the hospital Monday night suffering from apparent stab wounds to his chest, arms and stomach that he claimed were from an incident in the parking lot of a Supermarket.
Police will allege she strangled Ms Cho and the boy at her North Parramatta taekwondo center after classes finished on Monday night before getting into her car and fatally stabbing her ex-husband at the woman’s home. couple in Baulkham Hills.
Police on Wednesday released the description of a white BMW X5 SUV, which they believe the 49-year-old man was driving.
CCTV has emerged from a white car allegedly driven by a taekwondo instructor accused of the murder of a young western Sydney family.
Police charged Kwang Kyung Yoo, 49, with the alleged triple murder after he arrived at hospital with stab wounds which he claimed were from an incident in a car park.
Security cameras showed the white SUV going through a traffic light while traveling on a road in western Sydney at night.
The same day, parents at Yoo’s taekwondo studio said the instructor was encouraging students hours before the alleged attacks.
The allegations were detailed Wednesday by homicide detectives who were poised to charge the taekwondo instructor over the “heartbreaking” murders of the Korean-Australian family on Monday night.
“This was a loving family,” Detective Superintendent Danny Doherty told reporters.
Yoo underwent surgery and was placed under arrest once the bodies were discovered on Tuesday.
The boy regularly attended the taekwondo studio for classes.
“We are still establishing what other connections or what other relationships may or may not have been,” he said, describing Tuesday’s discoveries as a “tragic turn of events,” Detective Superintendent Doherty said.
‘Three people from one family, it’s devastating.
Yoo was treated at a hospital for numerous injuries, but was later arrested and charged with the alleged murder of Min Cho, 41, her husband Steven, 39 (both pictured), and a 7-year-old boy.
Police will allege that Yoo, known as ‘Master Lion’, fatally attacked Ms Cho and the boy at his taekwondo studio (pictured) on Monday night.
Detective Superintendent Doherty sought further help from the public and encouraged anyone in the vicinity of the taekwondo studio on Monday night who may have seen or heard anything to contact investigators.
Anyone with images of the BMW on Monday night is also asked to contact police.
Yoo’s lawyers appeared briefly before Parramatta Local Court on Thursday, when they did not apply for bail.
The 49-year-old did not appear via video conference from his hospital bed.
Police prosecutors will have to provide Yoo and his lawyers with a brief of evidence by April 16 and the matter will return to court two days later.
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