Chien Hoang was stabbed to death at a nightclub. Picture: Facebook

It was 2011 and Mr Hoang had been living in Melbourne for about two years.

He moved in with his girlfriend in 2010 and he was making a life for himself after moving to Australia from Vietnam.

But he had a streak of jealousy and, in early June 2011, he began thinking his girlfriend was having an affair with another man, Minh Thao Nguyen.

On June 12 that same year, Mr Hoang received a deadly text message that resulted in his murder.

On Saturday, June 11 about 11.30pm, Mr Nguyen and his friends showed up at the Bubble nightclub, a hotspot down a dark alley near King Street, one of Melbourne’s most notorious party strips.

About three hours later, Mr Hoang’s phone buzzed and he had a text from a friend who told him Mr Nguyen was at the club and was looking for trouble.

“He asked about you ... I am swearing/abusing him,” the text read.

Mr Hoang decided to go to the club to confront Mr Nguyen.

The front of the Bubble Nightclub.Source:News Limited

According to a report from the Coroners Court of Victoria, 15 minutes after receiving the text, Mr Hoang went to a United petrol station and bought a screw driver.

He then went to Bubble nightclub just before 3am.

Mr Nguyen and his group of friends decided the leave the club but Mr Hoang slapped one of the friends in the face and pulled out his screw driver, the coroners report said.

Mr Nguyen then brandished a knife and lunged himself at Mr Hoang and drove it into the side of his neck.

Mr Hoang suffered from three stab wounds and he dropped to the ground while holding his neck.

Police and ambulance officers rushed to the scene and he was taken to hospital.

An emergency surgery was performed on him but he couldn’t pull through and died almost exactly 12 hours after receiving the text message from his friend.

The Coroner’s report said blood plasma samples taken from Mr Hoang before he died had traces of a number of drugs, including amphetamine and methamphetamine. There was no alcohol detected.

Chien Hoang was murdered after he responded to a text message from a friend. Picture: iStock/Ridvan CelikSource:istock

After the stabbing, Mr Nguyen ran away with his friends, according to the Coroner’s report, and nobody has ever been charged over the murder of Mr Hoang.

Mr Nguyen, who was also from Vietnam, fled the country at the first possible moment.

On June 13, the day after Mr Hoang died, Mr Nguyen met a woman at the international airport in Sydney.

She purchased him an over-the-counter one-way ticket to Vietnam and he flew out of the country that afternoon on board a Singapore Airlines flight.

He has not come back to Australia since the violent confrontation with Mr Hoang.

The report said despite an extensive homicide investigation, nobody had been charged with criminal offences in relation to Mr Hoang’s death.

Two men however were charged with affray, usually a first offence penalty for people with no criminal record.

According to the Coroner’s report, no charges could be laid against Mr Nguyen because he had left the country and therefore, the jurisdiction.

The Coroner’s report said Victoria Police had sought advice about whether to extradite Mr Nguyen from Vietnam to face a charge of murder.

Police are still investigating Mr Hoang’s death.