Update 22/11:
Sydney schoolgirl Quanne Diec was reportedly murdered in 1998 after a bungled ransom plot. Vincent Tarantino stands accused of killing the 12-year-old and attended Sydney’s Central Local Court yesterday.
“Tarantino … did entice away and detain Quanne Diec, with intent to hold her for ransom, and caused her a substantial injury,” court documents revealed.
Police have confirmed he’s been a person of interest for 18 years.
The 49-year-old will remain in custody until he appears at Parramatta Local Court in January.
Original story:
In July 1998, 12-year-old Quanne Diec disappeared on her way to school. She’d been on her way to Strathfield Girls High School from her Granville home but she never made it onto the train.
Quanne was reported missing that night, her parents assuming she’d been at school that day and her school assuming she was off sick.
Yesterday, a 49-year-old man walked into Surry Hills Police Station in Sydney and was charged with the murder of the little girl, which would’ve happened nearly 20 years ago.
During a press conference this morning, Superintendent Scott Whyte said the man charged with murder had been a suspect for 18 years.
He said the police are also not ruling out further arrests: “There are people out there who we have spoken to and now perhaps, as a result of this, they may want to come back and offer further information or talk to us about what they may or may not know.”
Quanne was described as a quiet, focused child by family and her disappearance was out of character.
Quanne’s parents, Ann and Sam, still live in the same Granville home where she was last seen.
In 2003, they told The Sunday Telegraph they would never move in case Quanne walked back into their lives.
“If Quanne did return and we’re not here, then she won’t know where we have gone,” Mr Diec said.
He has spent thousands of dollars travelling around Australia to follow up possible sightings of his daughter.
We hope they get the justice and peace they desperately deserve.
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