{"id":767890,"date":"2026-06-29T14:01:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T14:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/767890\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T14:01:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T14:01:14","slug":"steven-lindisgraced-dentist-violently-attacked-man-months-before-nearly-killing-two-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/767890\/","title":{"rendered":"Steven Lin:Disgraced dentist violently attacked man months before nearly killing two women"},"content":{"rendered":"

Partially buried, covered in dirt, wild hair and his pants around his ankles.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s how police found Steven Lin after he violently attacked Nick Skarvelis.<\/p>\n

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Lin was found by police partially buried, covered in dirt, wild hair and his pants around his ankles after he violently attacked Nick Skarvelis.\u00a0A Current Affair<\/p>\n

\u201cHe had that look in his eyes, like he just wanted to kill me,\u201d Skarvelis told A Current Affair.<\/p>\n

The father-of-three was standing on his front balcony in a leafy suburb of Wollongong in May last year when Lin emerged from the bushes across the road.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought, \u2018I\u2019m not gonna let him up here\u2019, so I started walking down the stairs, got to halfway, and said, \u2018are you right there?\u2019 and that\u2019s when he mumbled, \u2018I\u2019m going to kill you\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

Skarvelis says Lin then hit him across the face with a metal pole. <\/p>\n

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Skarvelis tried to fend off Lin, running up the front staircase before Lin threw him over the railing and onto the concrete footpath below\u00a0A Current Affair<\/p>\n

Skarvelis tried to fend off Lin, running up the front staircase before Lin threw him over the railing and onto the concrete footpath below.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had a fractured scapula, five broken ribs. I broke a pinky [finger], broke a toe \u2026 and a fractured cheekbone,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Skarvelis managed to get back inside his house where he called police, but it wasn\u2019t until Lin heard the sirens that he fled.<\/p>\n

The former celebrity dentist was found by police almost an hour later partially buried in a nearby backyard.<\/p>\n

\u201cDug a hole in the garden and buried himself with leaves and everything \u2026 it was just his eyeballs you could see. It was like the movies,\u201d Skarvelis said.That moment played out in police bodyworn footage exclusively obtained by A Current Affair.<\/p>\n

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NSW Police officers filmed handcuffing Lin before escorting him to a nearby police van where he was questioned.\u00a0A Current Affair<\/p>\n

NSW Police officers filmed handcuffing Lin before escorting him to a nearby police van where he was questioned.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was just going for a run and then there was police,\u201d Lin mumbles in the footage.\u201cI just felt a bit weird \u2026 I just kind of skipped into the bush and I laid down.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite Lin denying getting into a scuffle with Skarvelis – a complete stranger – he was later charged with assault.<\/p>\n

He was then granted bail.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was only a matter of time until someone was actually going to be killed by him,\u201d said Chloe Paul, another victim of Lin.<\/p>\n

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Chloe Paul and her neighbour Christine Campeau were violently attacked by Lin just 10 months after Skarvelis.\u00a0A Current Affair<\/p>\n

Paul and her neighbour Christine Campeau were violently attacked by Lin just 10 months after Skarvelis.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I close my eyes I see him hitting me, he was incessant. I had about 12 big blows in the back of my head,\u201d Campeau told Ally Langdon during an interview in the days following the assault.<\/p>\n

Paul and Campeau fought back, and Lin\u2019s frenzy soon came to an end when he was shot dead by police.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m glad he\u2019s not still out there, because there\u2019d be more victims for sure\u201d, Paul said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Partially buried, covered in dirt, wild hair and his pants around his ankles. That\u2019s how police found Steven…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":767891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-767890","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\/767890","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=767890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/767891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}