Topic: Courts. Ting Fang had travelled to Adelaide to work for an escort agency, the court heard. Supplied: SA Police. A man allegedly murdered a Sydney prostitute in an Adelaide hotel room by beating her with her stiletto and slitting her throat with a razor blade, South Australia's Supreme Court has heard. Prosecutor Tim Preston told the jury Piao was Ms Fang's last client and he was seen in security vision leaving the hotel about am. The court heard Ms Fang's body was found the next morning.
Mr Preston told the jury the victim was allegedly beaten with her own shoe and her throat slashed. A razor blade that was of the same type as the blades found in his work van," Mr Preston said. The jury was told a motive for the killing might never be known.
Indeed, we may never know precisely what happened, but what is clear on the prosecution case is that the accused hit the deceased about the head causing lacerations, probably with her left shoe, and then slashed her throat with a razor blade he brought with him into the room," he told the hearing.
The court heard the woman had travelled to Adelaide from Sydney a few days earlier to work for an escort agency. We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we live, learn, and work.
Prostitute murder trial told victim beaten with stiletto and throat slashed with razor. Prostitute murder trial told victim beaten with stiletto and throat slashed with razor By court reporter Candice Prosser. Footer ABC News homepage.
