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Miklos Bolza

Student 'lost self-control' killing trans sex worker

A Colombian student extradited to Australia for murder has admitted killing a Sydney sex worker in a rage after learning she was transgender.

Hector Enrique Valencia Valencia appeared in the NSW Supreme Court on Monday, pleading not guilty to murdering Kimberly McRae at her Coogee apartment between January 7 and 14, 2020.

The 23-year-old Colombian national, who was arrested in the Caribbean island of Aruba before being returned to Australia, pleaded guilty to unlawfully killing Ms McRae, who was 69 at the time of her death. The Crown has rejected this lesser plea.

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