A young man who allegedly attacked two Perth fast food workers with a meat cleaver nearly a decade ago has been extradited back to Western Australia.
Leroy Tawanda Tsuro today was back in police custody in Australia after giving them the slip in 2016 and allegedly fleeing to New Zealand.
Police claim the 26-year-old taunted investigating detectives from across the Tasman, channelling the Leonardo DiCaprio film when he allegedly phoned detectives and told them: “catch me, if you can”.
The then-18-year-old had been interviewed by police the day before catching a flight from Perth to Auckland.
He’d allegedly been captured on camera at Morley McDonald’s in a late night robbery with another man and is accused of threatening and injuring two workers with large meat cleavers as they demanded cash.
WA Police first tried to extradite Tsuro from New Zealand in February last year, but the 26-year-old challenged the move in the High Court, a case he eventually lost.
Today he was back in Perth and went before a magistrate.
He applied for bail after being charged with aggravated armed robbery.
The court was told one fast food worker had a meat cleaver held to her throat as two men yelled out, “open the f—ing safe”.
Tsuro is also accused of hitting a staff member on the leg, cutting them.
The magistrate heard his co-offender was jailed for four and a half years. Tsuro was denied bail and remanded in custody to reappear in July.
