Man charged with Sarah's murder

Steven James Hunter is driven from the St Kilda Rd Police Station. Picture: Jake Nowakowski Source: Herald Sun

MURDER suspect Steven James Hunter was charged last night with killing Sarah Cafferkey after his arrest in Melbourne's inner east ended a national hunt.

Homicide squad investigators made the breakthrough about noon yesterday, tracking him to a flat in Caroline St, Hawthorn.

The heavily armed special operations group locked down the suburban street before telling Hunter to come out with his hands up.

It took Hunter less than a minute to emerge from the second-storey unit.

He was taken to the St Kilda Rd police complex for questioning.

An out-of-sessions hearing last night heard Hunter fatally stabbed the 22-year-old with repeated blows at his Bacchus Marsh address on November 10.

Detective Sen-Constable Damien O'Mahoney told the court Hunter had made admissions about the killing.

After he allegedly stabbed Ms Cafferkey, he moved her body the next day to Point Cook, where her body was found by police in a wheelie bin on Saturday.

Hunter, with dyed blond hair, was wearing a police-issue white plastic suit, and was barefoot.

He barely spoke during the brief hearing, indicating to Bail Justice Adam Trumble that he understood he had been charged with one count of murder and that he did not have a medical condition.

Hunter was taken to the Melbourne Custody Centre and remanded to appear at the Melbourne Magistrates' Court today.

Hunter's arrest came 11 days after Ms Cafferkey was last seen. Hunter and Ms Cafferkey were friends on Facebook, exchanging messages days before she vanished.

Publican from the Young & Main Hotel in Bacchus Marsh, David Bushell, said Ms Cafferkey and a man who looked like Hunter were at the pub on November 10, spending 20 minutes talking in the beer garden.

"They seemed to know each other," he said. "They bought a drink and went to the beer garden."

Ms Cafferkey's distraught mother reported her missing on November 12, three days after she was at their Bacchus Marsh family home.

Her body was found at a Point Cook house after police executed a search warrant in Fongeo Drive on Saturday.

The swift arrest surprised residents and workers.

Tradesman Justin Pryor said Hunter was faced with up to a dozen armed officers.

"They were yelling out to a person to come out with nothing in their hands. I looked over the fence and there was two tactical response guys with guns and riot shields," he said.

"They repeated themselves maybe three or four times within 30 seconds and (he) was out."

Mr Pryor said police called on Hunter by name to come out.

"He didn't struggle or resist in anyway," he said.

A resident, who wished to remain anonymous, said she was shocked by the daylight raid in her quiet street.

"It freaked me out. It was very scary."

anthony.dowsley@news.com.au

Police arrest a man in Hawthorn following the death of Sarah Cafferkey. The Herald Sun has obscured the man's face for legal reasons. Picture: Supplied

The body of Sarah Cafferkey was found in a house in Point Cook.

Police at an apartment block in Caroline St, Hawthorn, after Hunter was arrested. Picture: Ian Currie

Flowers and letters left on the doorstep of Sarah Cafferkey's home in Bacchus Marsh. Picture: Chris Scott

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