Dinush Kurera, 47, was sentenced to life in prison for brutally stabbing his wife Nelomie Perera to death with an axe and knife in December 2022. Kurera claimed self-defense, but the jury rejected his story. Justice Amanda Fox described the attack as horrific and said Kurera was motivated by anger and a sense of entitlement.
Dinush Kurera, 47, blinked and looked straight ahead as Victorian Supreme Court Justice Amanda Fox handed down his sentence today.Emergency flood warnings issued as parts of Queensland go underKurera claimed he was acting in self-defence when he repeatedly stabbed his wife Nelomie Perera with an axe and knife at her Melbourne home on December 3, 2022.
Justice Fox described the fatal attack as brutal and horrific, saying Kurera had clearly been in a rage. "In your mind, Nelomie deserved to be killed for leaving you, excluding you from your house and seeing other men."
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