Sister arrested after stabbing death

A "normal, happy" Sydney family has been torn apart by the stabbing death of a teenage girl and the arrest of her older sister. The 18-year-old girl died after being stabbed in the neck in her Mosely Street home at Strathfield about 11.30am (AEDT) Friday.

Police were called to the neatly hedged Federation-style home in the city's inner west by a third party. They immediately took the teenager's 20-year-old sister into custody and were still questioning her late Friday afternoon. "We've got a 20-year-old in custody," a police spokesman said. "They were sisters."

As officers went door-to-door after sealing off part of the usually quiet street,
neighbours expressed their shock.
A taxi driver, who gave his name only as Laval, said he would often wave and say
hello to the family as he drove by.
The two young women along with their mother, father, and a younger boy, were a
"normal, happy family", he said.
"It is a shocking thing that happened.
"I saw them from time to time. I never talked to them but to say hello.
"To imagine that something like this happened here is very hard."
The family's next-door neighbour, who wanted to be identified only as Bajrang, said
he was stunned when police told him of the incident.
"I'm shocked," he said.
"The police came from the back and knocked on my door and they asked if I heard
anything, any crying or anything like that, and I said no."
One neighbour said her children were the same age as the two girls and had often
played together when they were younger.
"It's just horrible," she said.
Moseley Street resident Min Yao said the street was a quiet one and residents tended
to keep to themselves.
"It's really, really shocking," she said.
"Somebody was killed, I couldn't believe that. It's unbelievable."
An ambulance spokeswoman said the young woman was already dead when paramedics
arrived at the scene.