A woman originally from Fort Good Hope in the Northwest Territories was stabbed to death Tuesday in western Australia.
Police in Girrawheen, a suburb of Perth, are investigating the death of the 33-year-old woman, whose body was found in a house around 3 a.m. local time Tuesday, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported. She had been stabbed in the chest and neck.
CBC News sources identified the woman Wednesday as Alana Boniface Dakin, who was raised in Fort Good Hope, a hamlet about 800 kilometres northwest of Yellowknife in the Mackenzie Valley.
Police have charged Dakin's partner, 31-year-old Anthony Thomas Evans, in connection to her death.
"During the early hours of the 13th of November — we allege sometime between 2 a.m. and 3 a.m. — the two became involved in an argument," Ros Weatherall, a spokeswoman with Western Australia Police, told CBC News on Wednesday.
"During this time, the woman received the fatal wounds with a knife and she died at the scene."
Dakin, who had been living in Australia since the early 1990s, is survived by her 4½-year-old son, Zebediah, mother Rose and stepfather Marius Dakin.
She had visited her hometown as recently as October, the sources said.
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