Third arrest over shooting murder of Sydney lawyer Ho Ledinh

A third person has been arrested after the murder of lawyer Ho Ledinh outside a cafe in Bankstown in 2018.

Ho Ledinh, 65, was shot three times through the back at point-blank range outside Happy Cup cafe at Bankstown City Plaza in January 2018.

Ho Ledinh, 65, was shot three times through the back at point-blank range outside Happy Cup cafe at Bankstown City Plaza in January 2018. Source: AAP

A third person has been arrested in connection to the daylight execution of a lawyer at a cafe in Sydney's southwest in 2018.

Ho Ledinh, 65, was shot three times through the back at point-blank range outside Happy Cup cafe at Bankstown City Plaza in January 2018, in front of horrified witnesses.

He died at the scene.

A man pays his respects at the scene of a shooting at a cafe at Bankstown City Plaza, in Bankstown.
A man pays his respects at the scene of a shooting at a cafe at Bankstown City Plaza.. Source: AAP


Strikeforce Eugene was established by local police and the homicide squad to investigate.

They apprehended two people in the months that followed.

Analosa Ah Keni, from Liverpool, was arrested on the Hume Highway at Marulan in March and charged with murder.

Ho Ledinh, 65, was shot three times through the back at point-blank range outside Happy Cup cafe at Bankstown City Plaza in January 2018.
Ho Ledinh, 65, was shot three times through the back at point-blank range outside Happy Cup cafe at Bankstown City Plaza in January 2018. Source: AAP


It came three weeks after Arthur Kelekolio was arrested at Sydney International Airport before he could board a flight to Bali. He too was charged with murder.

The pair remain before the courts.

Investigators on Thursday arrested a second man, aged 34, at a home in Leppington.

NSW Police and Forensic Services officers attend the scene of a shooting at a cafe at Bankstown City Plaza, in Bankstown, Tuesday, January 23, 2018.
A third person has been arrested in relation to a shooting at a cafe in Bankstown in 2018. Source: AAP


He is being interviewed by police at Narellan Police Station.

Ledinh, a father-of-five, was one of the solicitors who represented Philip Nguyen, the man jailed over the killing of Sydney police constable Bill Crews in 2010.




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