{"id":547548,"date":"2026-03-18T03:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T03:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/547548\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T03:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T03:32:08","slug":"cctv-shows-three-men-near-sydney-stronghold-where-kidnapped-chris-baghsarian-held-police-allege-new-south-wales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/547548\/","title":{"rendered":"CCTV shows three men near Sydney \u2018stronghold\u2019 where kidnapped Chris Baghsarian held, police allege | New South Wales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">New South Wales police have released CCTV footage of three further men they want to question over the alleged kidnapping and murder of Sydney grandfather Chris Baghsarian last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Daniel Stevens, 24, and Gerard Andrews, 29 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2026\/feb\/26\/chris-baghsarian-man-accused-alleged-kidnapping-murder-sydney-no-mastermind-lawyer-ntwnfb\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">have previously been charged<\/a> with murder and detaining in company with intent to ransom, occasioning actual bodily harm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Police allege Baghsarian, 85, was kidnapped from his North Ryde home on 13 February in a case of mistaken identity. His <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2026\/feb\/24\/chris-baghsarian-human-remains-kidnapped-sydney-police\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">body was dumped near a golf club<\/a> at Pitt Town days later, police allege, but was not found until 24 February.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Police on Wednesday released the CCTV footage as part of a public appeal for more information.<\/p>\n<p>NSW police have released CCTV footage of three men they want to question over the alleged kidnapping and murder of Sydney grandfather Chris Baghsarian. Composite: NSW police<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">It shows three men walking towards what police allege was the kidnappers\u2019 \u201cstronghold\u201d at Dural, in north-western Sydney, on the night Baghsarian went missing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">CCTV from the following day shows a blue Hyundai sedan with a missing hubcap on its left side arriving at and then leaving the Dural address just after midday.<\/p>\n<p><a data-link-name=\"standard link button Primary\" data-spacefinder-role=\"inline\" data-ignore=\"global-link-styling\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=copyembed&amp;CMP=emailbutton\" class=\"dcr-svb9qg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for the Breaking News Australia email<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The NSW police commissioner, Mal Lanyon, said on Tuesday that \u201cwe believe these males may be involved\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cIt\u2019s important that we identify who they are and either rule them in or eliminate them from our inquiries,\u201d Lanyon told ABC radio.<\/p>\n<p><a data-name=\"placeholder\" href=\"https:\/\/interactive.guim.co.uk\/uploader\/embed\/2026\/02\/archive-zip\/giv-32554O8UWOZBzZULW\/\" class=\"dcr-1eupayo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Baghsarian timeline<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cWe\u2019ve indicated we\u2019re going to be incredibly thorough with this investigation. The CCTV also indicates a blue-coloured Hyundai sedan, which is missing a hubcap on the left-hand side. That vehicle was seen to go out to a house that we believe Mr Baghsarian was held captive [at] during his ordeal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Baghsarian\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2026\/feb\/17\/family-of-85-year-old-sydney-man-kidnapped-by-mistake-say-he-wouldnt-hurt-a-fly\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">family issued a statement<\/a> in mid-February describing the 85-year-old as \u201ca devoted father, brother, uncle and grandfather\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cHe is deeply loved, gentle, and the kindest person we know \u2013 someone who would never hurt a fly,\u201d they said at the time.<\/p>\n<p>The blue Hyundai with a missing hubcap. Photograph: NSW police<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New South Wales police have released CCTV footage of three further men they want to question over the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":547549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-547548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547548","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=547548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}