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Fourth murder charge after Castle Hill man found dying outside unit block

A fourth person has now been charged with murder over the death of a 44-year-old man found critically injured outside a Castle Hill unit complex last month, turning a grim early-morning callout into one of Sydney’s more serious homicide briefs heading into Monday court.

NSW Police said the man was found outside a unit complex on Crane Road about 2.40am on Sunday, 17 May. Paramedics worked on him at the scene, but he could not be revived.

The case has been running under Strike Force Sunbach, with The Hills Police Area Command, the North West Metropolitan Region and State Crime Command’s Homicide Squad all on it. Police had already charged two men, aged 30 and 38, and a 34-year-old woman with murder. They remain before the courts.

The latest arrest came about 2.45am on Sunday, 14 June, when Kings Cross officers picked up a 31-year-old man on Forbes Street, Woolloomooloo, on an outstanding murder warrant. He was taken to Kings Cross Police Station, charged with murder and refused bail.

He is due to face Bail Division Court 7 on Monday, 15 June.

The charge matters because it suggests detectives believe the alleged offending was not confined to one person acting alone. Four murder charges in a single death usually means investigators are looking hard at who was present, who did what, and whether the alleged conduct was shared, planned, or helped along. Police have not laid that full picture out publicly, and the courts will now have to test the case.

For residents around Crane Road, the bare facts are ugly enough: a man found dying outside a block of units before dawn, a homicide squad investigation, and now a fourth accused person behind bars. The next answers are likely to come slowly, through remand mentions, briefs of evidence and whatever police are still holding back.

Source: NSW Police Force media release, Sunday 14 June 2026.