A man has been arrested over the death of Claire Austin, who was fatally injured while fleeing from her boyfriend’s alleged abuse in Sydney’s eastern suburbs earlier this year.

Austin, 38, lacerated an artery in her arm when she tried to force her way through a sliding door in her top-floor Randwick unit on the evening of April 12. Police, who were called to the unit after a neighbour reported hearing an argument, believe she was trying to escape a domestic violence incident when she was injured.

Police labelled the death of 38-year-old Randwick woman Claire Austin as “suspicious”.

She was taken to St Vincent’s Hospital in a critical condition and died three days later on April 15.

Her ex-boyfriend, 44-year-old Lee Loughlin, was taken to Maroubra police station on the night of Austin’s

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