The father of a pregnant Sydney woman, murdered by her husband before her body was placed in a bath of acid, delivered a heartbreaking victim impact statement in court, detailing the unimaginable pain of losing his daughter and the horror of her disfigured remains. The mother also shared her grief, describing how she now strokes the grass by her daughter's grave instead of her hair.
The father of a pregnant Sydney woman murdered by her husband before her body was placed in a bath of acid has told a court her killer burned the very face he used to talk to and kiss, as her mother spoke of now stroking the grass by her daughter’s grave instead of her hair. Arnima Hayat, 19, was killed by Meraj Zafar in their North Parramatta unit on the night of January 29, 2022.Zafar pleaded guilty to murder in May , two weeks before he was due to face trial in the NSW Supreme Court.
The 23-year-old appeared via video link for his sentence hearing on Monday, which coincided with International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. Hayat’s father Abu Hayat, reading his victim impact statement to the court, said he was “extremely proud” of his daughter, who had been studying medical science at the University of Western Sydney.“We lost our daughter and everything else,” Hayat said. As he read his statement, describing it as “very, very hard” to do, he said he misses his daughter every day and sees her face in his dreams. “I couldn’t see her face after she died because he burned her body,” he said. “He burned the face ... I used to talk and kiss every night. He burned her. Can you imagine? Can you imagine someone burning your child? I can never see her again.”He said Zafar broke his family and his heart, and he hoped he would be jailed for “a long, long time”. In a statement read by a homicide victim support person, Hayat’s mother Mahafuza Akter said she would give anything to see her daughter’s face “one more time”.“Instead, I sit by her grave every Friday, stroking the grass because I can no longer stroke her hair,” she said. “I kiss and hug her tombstone, longing to hold her and smell her. How do I live without you? Please come home, please.” She said she was a beautiful daughter, loving sister and dedicated student “loved by everyone fortunate to meet her”, who would have helped thousands as a docto
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