A homeless man has been charged over the death of Courtney Herron, who was brutally murdered in a Melbourne park two days ago. Victoria police said the man, 27, of no fixed address, had been arrested on Sunday and charged overnight with one count of murder, and would appear in Melbourne magistrates court on Monday. The battered body of Herron, 25, was found by dog walkers in Royal Park in the inner Melbourne suburb of Parkville on Saturday morning. “This was a particularly, particularly horrendous attack,” a homicide squad detective inspector, Andrew Stamper, said on Sunday. The last confirmed sighting of Herron was on 14 May at St Albans when she came into contact with the police.

Source: The Guardian May 26, 2019 22:07 UTC