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Criminologist Xanthe Mallet has compared recent gang-related violence in Sydney to Brazil, which is notorious for high crime rates, after a horror alleged kidnapping in Sydney last week.
Peter Voung, 26, was laying in bed with his TikTok star girlfriend when he was allegedly kidnapped and whisked him away to a decrepit Belmore property, in Sydney's southwest.
Peter Vuong, 26, was rescued by dozens of heavily armed NSW Police tactical officers at a rundown home on Canterbury Road in Belmore, in Sydney's southwest, on Tuesday.
Peter Vuong, 26, was allegedly ambushed at a home in Smithfield, in Sydney's west, at about 5.20am last Thursday, by a group armed with sledgehammers and firearms.