A man and woman are arrested over the death of 20-year-old Dane McNeill in Picnic Point. Courtesy: NSW Police Media
AFTER six months waiting for answers, the family of a young Sydney man whose life was turned upside down by the drug ice is a step closer to knowing who killed the 20-year-old.
Dane McNeill had been a star ice hockey player in his teenage years, with dreams of playing in the NHL.
But in the months before his death last July, the 20-year-old fell in with the wrong crowd.
He had been dabbling in low-level drug dealing and had pleaded guilty in court to a string of drug charges last June.
Dane McNeill whose body was found at Picnic Point. Source: News Corp Australia
Dane McNeil had been a star ice hockey player. Source: Facebook
Dane McNeill was a promising ice hockey player, and played for Australia as a teen. Source: Supplied
A month later, his badly burned body was found dumped in a leafy reserve at Picnic Point, in Sydney's southwest.
In May 2014, on two separate occasions, police found him high on the drug ice in the middle of the night in St Andrews, also in Sydney's southwest.
On one occasion, he had a padlocked bag with scales, a drug tick book and ice, court documents state.
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He admitted to police he had been dealing "a bit", according to the documents.
Mr McNeill's loving family tried to pull their son out of his downward spiral.
"We were forever trying to help him but he just made his own choices," father Peter McNeill said in July.
This morning, a large contingent of police, assisted by riot squad officers and homicide detectives, arrested a 24-year-old man at a home in Bankstown.
Two hours later they arrested a 24-year-old pregant woman, who has a two-year-old child, at Liverpool.
Homicide Squad detectives have today arrested a man and a woman over the death of a man whose burnt remains were found at Picnic Point in July last year. Picture: NSW Police Media Source: Supplied
Homicide Squad detectives have today arrested a man and a woman over the death of a man whose burnt remains were found at Picnic Point in July last year.Picture: NSW Police Media Source: Supplied
Homicide Squad detectives have today arrested a man and a woman over the death of a man whose burnt remains were found at Picnic Point in July last year. Picture: NSW Police Media Source: Supplied
The man this afternoon was charged with Mr McNeill's murder while the woman is being questioned. She is expected to be charged in relation to the killing this afternoon.
A third person, the woman's partner, is also likely to be charged with murder. He is currently in jail on unrelated charges, reports The Daily Telegraph.
The arrests come after a six-month investigation by Strike Force Halfrey.
Police will allege Mr McNeill was assaulted at an address in Heckenberg on July 19, and kept captive overnight.
He was then taken to an address in Cartwright where he died after allegedly being assaulted and stabbed.
It is alleged Mr McNeill's body was taken to Picnic Point and set alight in the early hours of July 21.
It is understood his body was found in a suitcase.
Mr McNeill told the Liverpool Leader in 2007 of his dream of playing in the NHL.
"Hopefully there's no limit. I want to make the Australian team and play for Australia. It's fun, rough and it's very fast."
Mr McNeill's mother and father had reported him missing.
He survived by his two brothers, Ryan and Nate, as well has his girlfriend of about 18 months, Jade Patterson.
It's believed Dane McNeill's body was found in a suitcase. Source: Facebook
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