The husband of a couple whose bodies were dumped in a bushland creek near Sydney Airport racked up a huge gambling debt before the pair were killed.
The body of Jai-Bao ‘Rex’ Chen, 33, was found submerged in a creek near Botany Bay’s Sir Joseph Banks Park in Sydney’s south, on Tuesday afternoon.
The decomposed body of his wife Zhuojun ‘Sally’ Li, which had been wrapped in plastic, was discovered by a jogger 10 metres away eight days earlier.
Homicide detectives have uncovered that Mr Chen owed a significant amount of money to a loan shark, the Daily Telegraph reported.
Sources told the newspaper Mr Chen had a ‘chronic’ gambling habit.
Police are investigating whether a loan shark was responsible for the couple’s deaths.
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