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By Anton Rose
Topic:Crime
Thi Kim Tran was killed in April. (Supplied: Facebook)
Three men have been charged with the murder of Thi Kim Tran in Bankstown earlier this year.
Ms Tran, 45, was taken from her home at gunpoint in April and her remains were found in a burnt-out car.
Police had already charged one man with murder. They allege he led Ms Tran's alleged killers to her door.
Three men have been charged with the murder of a Bankstown woman who was kidnapped from her home, stripped naked and shot dead earlier this year.
Thi Kim Tran, 45, was abducted at gunpoint by a group of masked men at about 10:30am on April 17 from her home and bundled into an SUV.
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While the crew attempted to lure out Ms Tran's husband he was sent a disturbing series of messages after she was kidnapped.
"One of those messages included an image [of Ms Tran]," Superintendent Doueihi said.
Talk is now turning to underworld rules that normally forbade criminals going after each others' families.
"It appears those days are gone," Superintendent Doueihi said.
"These young criminals are ruthless they don’t care about the code, it's no longer 'families are off limits'.
"They're selfish they're greedy, they don’t think of the consequence, these guys are big, big trouble."
Superintendent Doueihi is now talking about the "kill crew" who were contracted to kill Tran's husband.
He told reporters they "prostitute themselves out to whoever pays the biggest amount".
"The three males are every well known to police," he said.
"I've referred to them as guns for hire a crew that go out there and act as enforcers for organised crime groups."
Superintendent Doueihi said the men arrested yesterday killed Tran after attempts to "lure out" her husband failed.
"They stripped 45-year-old naked out the front of her house and bundled her into the back of an SUV," he said.
"The males attempted to communicate with the woman's husband … who was involved in a Victorian organised crime group manufacturing drugs for that syndicate.
"When they couldn't contact him to lure him out they murdered the victim within 40 minutes."
Homicide Squad Commander Joe Doueihi will soon address the media after police charged three men over the alleged kidnapping and murder of a woman in Bankstown earlier this year.
Thi Kim Tran, 45, was abducted by masked men from her Western Sydney home on April 17.
Hours later, police located Tran's remains in a burned out car in Beverly Hills.
An hour later her remains were found inside a burnt-out car in Beverly Hills on Welfare Avenue.
Police believe she had been shot dead and left in the car before it was set alight.
NSW Police and Fire and Rescue NSW crews at Welfare Avenue in Beverly Hills, where Thi Kim Tran's body was found inside a burnt-out car. (ABC News)
An eight-year-old boy was also assaulted with a baseball bat and had to be treated in hospital for serious injuries.
On Thursday morning officers with Strike Force Bushfield arrested three men aged 30, 22 and 21 at Parramatta police station.
All three were charged with the murder of Ms Tran, conspiring to kill her husband, wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm, kidnapping in company and participating in a criminal group.
Police believe Ms Tran had been shot dead and left in the car before it was set alight. (Supplied: Facebook)
In August police laid a murder charge against a man who they believe led Ms Tran's alleged killers to her house, knocked on her door and stood aside as the group kidnapped her.
Police allege the three men charged this week were a hired "kill crew" contracted to kill Ms Tran's husband, who had fallen foul of the Victorian wing of a Vietnamese drug cartel.
The Bankstown home where Ms Tran was taken from in April. (ABC News: Victoria Pengilley)
Police have previously said the group accused Ms Tran's husband of stealing drugs from them.
Last Wednesday Organised Crime Squad Commander Peter Faux said there were "potentially some links" between Ms Tran's death and raids on safe houses used by a South-East Asian crime gang that netted more than half a tonne of drugs.
Superintendent Faux also said it was "highly likely" there were links to a daring police operation in which an assassination attempt at a daycare in Condell Park was thwarted on October 8.
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