Homicide squad Commander Detective Superintendent Scott Cook said that, on March 11, Justin was picked up in a green BMW sedan and driven to a share house in Burwood Heights where he was held against his will and tortured by a group of men. Justin Tsang was found buried in a shallow grave. "We know over a period moving into the 12th of March Justin was beaten and ultimately brutally killed in that premises," Superintendent Cook said. "He was physically assaulted for hours and hours and hours, so you could say it's torture. He had defensive injuries, and there's some suggestions that he actually was pleading for his life." Superintendent Cook said Justin's body was then put in the green BMW and driven to the Blue Mountains, where he was buried in a shallow grave at the Jamison Lookout at Wentworth Falls.

He said the motive appeared to be related to a dispute over property. Court documents suggest Justin was kidnapped and assaulted with the intention of obtaining $500 in cash. The three men accused of Justin's murder all knew each other from playing the online game Mountain and Blade: Warband, while Justin knew only one of the men. Superintendent Cook said police did not believe that gaming was a motive for the alleged murder. One of the men arrested over the alleged murder of Justin Tsang. Credit:NSWPF On Thursday, Yigit Erdogan, 19, from Punchbowl, faced Bankstown Local Court charged with murder and detaining Justin with the intention of obtaining a financial advantage occasioning actual bodily harm.

Mr Erdogan, who police allege organised and co-ordinated Justin's killing, did not apply for bail and bail was refused. He was detained and is due to appear before court again on May 23. Two other men, Chris Hopkinson and Joel Steven Robertson, both 18 and of Burwood Heights, appeared at Burwood Local Court. They were both charged with murder and detaining with the intention of obtaining a financial advantage occasioning actual bodily harm. Mr Hopkinson appeared before magistrate Lisa Stapleton as his lawyer Ken Buckman argued he should be released on bail.

Mr Buckman said his client, unemployed and originally from Western Australia, did not know the victim before the night of March 11, and that Mr Erdogan intimidated his client into standing guard with a wrench. He argued the Crown case against Mr Hopkinson was not strong, and his admissions in phone conversations were not admissions of murder but of being in a bad situation. Police prosecutor Michael Tran said the first witness accounts had been corroborated by two further witness statements and were also backed up by CCTV footage and phone records. While Ms Stapleton accepted Mr Hopkinson had no history with police in either NSW or Western Australia, bail was refused.