Dinush Kurera has pleaded not guilty to murder and assaulting his son after wife’s 2022 death in Melbourne home
The Victorian supreme court has heard Dinush Kurera, who has pleaded not guilty to murder, allegedly killed his wife Nelomie Perera in Sandhurst.The Victorian supreme court has heard Dinush Kurera, who has pleaded not guilty to murder, allegedly killed his wife Nelomie Perera in Sandhurst.The bloodcurdling screams of a mother’s final moments alive while her estranged husband allegedly hacked her to death in front of their children have been played to a Victorian jury.
The prosecutor Mark Gibson KC told 14 jurors on Tuesday that when police arrived, Kurera allegedly told them: “I killed my wife. She’s dead over there.” Gibson alleged Kurera, dressed in dark clothing, wearing gloves and wielding a hatchet he bought at Bunnings earlier that day, had hit his estranged wife in the head as she was smoking on the Sandhurst property’s patio about 11.25pm on 3 December 2022.Gibson alleged Perera had ended their marriage while Kurera was away, after discovering he was being unfaithful.
Kurera allegedly told the teens if they called police or tried to leave he would set fire to the home and kill everyone including himself, Gibson said.
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