Woman’s corpse was discovered in bushes at a tennis club car park in Melbourne’s Dallas on 17 June 2016An alleged Islamic State sympathiser has admitted murdering his wife, whose mutilated body was found dumped in Melbourne. The man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, pleaded guilty to murdering his wife in June 2016 during a brief appearance at the Victorian supreme court on Wednesday. The woman’s body was found in bushes at the car park of a tennis club in Melbourne’s Dallas on 17 June 2016. In March he pleaded not guilty to the woman’s murder following a pre-trial committal hearing in Melbourne magistrates’ court. A male relative of the accused gave evidence during the committal hearing that the victim objected to her husband’s Isis sympathies.

Source: The Guardian September 20, 2017 01:41 UTC