Murder charges over cold case stabbing

A Western Australian man will answer murder charges over a Springvale woman’s stabbing death in 1987.
Ranny Yun’s sister and cousin found the Cambodian-born 27-year-old dead in the front room of her Windsor Avenue home just over 30 years ago, in the afternoon of Thursday 15 October.
Thornlie man Meth Mean faced an extradition hearing in Perth Magistrates’ Court on Thursday 2 November over the death.
He told the court through a Cambodian interpreter that he did not oppose the extradition request.
Homicide Squad Cold Case detectives, with help from Western Australia Police, arrested the 49-year-old in Perth earlier that day.
A cold case review led investigators to identify Mean as a person of interest.
In June 1988, police offered a $50,000 reward for information about Ms Yun’s death.
She worked at a Clayton South plastics factory and had lived in the house with her husband for two weeks.
At the time, Detective Senior Sergeant John Ashby of the Homicide Squad told the Journal that she was struck, stabbed and sexually assaulted.
He said she might have been murdered as revenge for her activities as a member of the Pol Pot regime in Cambodia before she fled to Australia two years earlier.
He said another motive police were investigating was her alleged involvement in illegal gambling and loan-sharking operations in Springvale.