A jury took less than three hours to deliberate before convicting Dinush Kurera of murder today.
An estranged husband who claimed he was acting in self-defence when he hacked his wife to death has been found guilty of murder.
He took the stand during his trial, telling the jury Perera had threatened him with a knife and bit his finger during a heated argument in their Melbourne home.
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