18:54 EDT, 28 January 2021
A high level drug dealing father whose body was found in a wheelie bin in a dam was allegedly murdered five days before the grisly discovery, a court has heard.
Todd Nathan Kiernan, 28, was charged with the murder of Dinh Lam Nguyen and faced Perth Magistrate’s Court on Thursday afternoon.
The charge read to Mr Kiernan by Magistrate Joe Randazzo alleges he murdered Mr Nguyen at Mahogany Creek on January 20, the last day Mr Nguyen was seen alive.
It was also revealed the pair were allegedly drug business partners and had met in jail when they were both serving time for meth dealing offences.
16:23 EDT, 27 January 2021
A body was found stuffed into a wheelie bin floating in a dam has been identified as a high level drug dealer and father-of-three.
Dinh Lam Nguyen, 51, who was well-known to police, was last seen in Balga, north of Perth s CBD, on January 20.
He was reported missing two days later by his roommate, and on Monday his rotting remains were discovered dumped in the Glen Brook Dam.
A foul smell led a group of teenagers and an adult to open the wheelie bin, which contained Nguyen s decomposing body wrapped in pink plastic.
Police are still hunting for his killer.