DOUG ROBERTSON
February 11, 2008 07:40pm
POLICE have arrested and charged the leader of a northern suburbs
Asian gang for the murder of stabbing victim Thea Kheave in December.
The man, 20, of Paralowie, was arrested yesterday at Parafield Gardens
and police have not ruled out further arrests.
Bail was refused and he is expected to appear in Adelaide Magistrates
Court today.
"Investigations into this murder are ongoing and further arrests
cannot be ruled out," a police spokesman said.
The charged man, head of a gang known as Team Revolution or TR, was a
victim of a firebombing at his home last Sunday.
It was one of two similar incidents that night and happened after
several Asian youths rampaged a Gouger St karaoke club.
They were re****tedly waving swords and knives and looking for a man.
The fire bombings happened shortly after the gang left the bar.
The family of Mr Kheave, 21, said he was not a gang member but he had
had run-ins with Team Revolution several years ago.
Paramedics were unable to revive Mr Kheave, who died in the street
after a fight with gatecrashers outside a party in Vartue St,
Parafield Gardens, on December 2.
His three brothers, who were guests at the Vartue St party, said then
they knew the attackers and that they feared retribution by the gang.
Their family had been forced to move home in the past three years
because of escalating threats made by Cambodian gang members, they
said.
Educated at Enfield High School, Mr Kheave was one of six siblings who
left Cambodia with their parents 20 years ago.
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