“The women were not known to each other,” Crown prosecutor Kristie Churchill said.
In a victim impact statement read out by Churchill, Luo’s father, Luo Bo, wrote of the pain of losing his daughter on the other side of the world from where their family lived in a remote mountainous village in China.
“Having to see my daughter leave this world before us is a huge blow to my heart. Right in the prime of her life. A young life cut short in an extremely brutal way by a criminal,” he wrote.
The court heard that on December 26, 2022, Lin messaged a friend to drive him to a brothel in Oakleigh South. He later called a booking agent via an internet ad to book an appointment with a sex worker.
He was told to drive to several locations…
