A man has pleaded guilty to the murder of a young woman whose dismembered body was discovered in a suitcase in a Sydney canal.
It emerged during a brief court appearance at Burwood Local Court today that Daniel Stani-Reginald entered a guilty plea earlier this year.
The 21-year-old accounting student murdered 24-year-old Indian university student Tosha Thakkar and stuffed her remains into a suitcase found in a canal near Meadowbank Park in northwest Sydney in March 2011.
He has also been charged with sexually assaulting Ms Thakkar, from Croydon, who had been living in Australia for about three years.
Stani-Reginald, then aged 19, was arrested at a motel in Ashfield on the day Ms Thakkar's remains were discovered.
The court heard his lawyers were waiting on further material before he entered a plea on the sexual assault charge.
Stani-Reginald did not appear in court on Wednesday and his matter was adjourned to the same court on November 28.
