{"id":412539,"date":"2026-01-14T15:12:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T15:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/412539\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T15:12:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T15:12:11","slug":"arrest-warrant-issued-for-man-in-nsw-over-alleged-murder-of-brisbane-carer-velvet-pesu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/412539\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrest warrant issued for man in NSW over alleged murder of Brisbane carer Velvet Pesu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Queensland detectives have issued an arrest warrant for a 36-year-old man over the alleged murder of a woman south of Brisbane.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Velvet Pesu was found dead at a house in the Logan suburb of Buccan at about 2:30am on Monday while police were conducting a welfare check.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Ms Pesu was believed to have been caring for Wael Abdallah Saleem Alfar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Police said the 36-year-old male resident, who was known to the woman, was not at the property when they attended.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A police car in the driveway of a house with a road and grass in the foreground.\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/75361543463e0397c9be49c05495376d.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">Velvet Pesu was found dead on Monday during a police welfare check at a house on Waterford Tamborine Road in the Logan suburb of Buccan. (ABC News: Curtis Rodda)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Mr Alfar appeared before Magistrate Robert Cook in Coffs Harbour Local Court on Wednesday on several unrelated charges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">He was arrested by NSW police near Kempsey on NSW\u2019s North Coast at about 2pm on Monday following an alleged high speed pursuit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">His Legal Aid solicitor Sean Mabin said Mr Alfar would plead guilty to one count of failing to stop while being pursued by police and is yet to enter a plea on the charge of driving a vehicle while his licence was suspended.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">He was remanded in custody and the matter was adjourned for a mention in Coffs Harbour Local Court on February 25.<\/p>\n<p>Police to seek extradition<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Queensland Police said once his matters were finalised in NSW they would seek that he be extradited back to Queensland<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;The arrest warrant against the man is for the offence of murder, in relation to the death of the 46-year-old Ashgrove woman,&#8221; police said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Velvet Pesu\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/7ae585357bedd7ef509172a42984de40.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">Velvet Pesu is being remembered by her family as a woman with &#8220;the biggest heart&#8221;. (Supplied)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The popular Brisbane artist and performer worked as a carer and taught African drumming to children with disabilities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;Velvet Pesu is a woman of the biggest heart, living in authentic, unconditional love, giving tirelessly to her community as a devoted mother, family member and friend, wearing many hats with kindness, strength and grace, and sacredly empowering and healing others through her music, voice and love,&#8221; Ivy Smith, a spokesperson for her family, said\u00a0in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Queensland detectives have issued an arrest warrant for a 36-year-old man over the alleged murder of a woman&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[120892,1108,106455,43,44,1158,94,701,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-412539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-arrest-warrant","tag-court","tag-extradition","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-police","tag-qld","tag-queensland","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}