Arnima Hayat told her friends Meraj Zafar was violent and she regretted marrying him. He now admits he killed the 19-year-old in their North Parramatta unit.
Arnima Hayat had hoped to become a doctor and expressed regrets about marrying her husband before he killed her in their Sydney home and placed her body in a bath filled with hydrochloric acid.
Hayat migrated to Australia from Bangladesh as a child and had been studying medical science at the University of Western Sydney. The next day, an interim apprehended violence order was made for the protection of Abu Hayat from Zafar. The facts state Arnima Hayat called her father that same day and “advised she wanted to marry the offender” and “wished to collect her belongings”, which she did in the following days.
In December 2021, she told a woman she was upset there were photographs of Zafar on another woman’s Instagram account, said he had lied to her about cheating, and she wanted a divorce.The facts state Zafar arrived back at the home with groceries at 8.15pm and killed Hayat between her final text at 9.10pm and when he left home at 9.55pm.
“The offender decanted the hydrochloric acid into the bathtub in the unit and moved the body of Ms Hayat into the bathtub,” the facts state. “He did so in an attempt to dispose of Ms Hayat’s remains.”Police released this image as part of their appeal to speak to Meraj Zafar.Zafar’s internet searches included querying “can hydrochloric acid burn through skin” and “how many years do you get in Sydney for murder”.
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