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| By Manager Online | 26 February 2010 15:21 |
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February 26, 2010
SYDNEY (AFP) - A Malaysian consular employee killed in Sydney was having an affair with the murder suspect's wife, and cried down the phone to her as he was stabbed and bludgeoned to death, a court heard on Thursday.
Mohd Shah Saemin, a 43-year-old driver for the Malaysian consulate, was attacked outside his home on Sunday.
It is now alleged that Saemin, a Malaysian-born Australian citizen, and the murder suspect's wife Nita Iskandar, an accounts clerk at the consulate, were lovers, barrister James Trevallion said at a bail hearing for the wife.
She has been arrested and charged with being an accessory after the fact and hindering the police investigation.
Police believe Iskandar's taxi driver husband, 55, killed Saemin with the help of their university student son, and claim she was speaking with her lover on the phone when he was attacked.
Indonesian-born Iskandar is accused of providing false alibis for her husband, Hazairin Iskandar, and their 20-year-old son Andrew.
The husband has been charged with murder, and will next appear in court on April 20. The son is also subject to an arrest warrant on murder charges.
After her spouse's arrest on Tuesday, Iskandar helped her son flee the country for Singapore, where he was arrested, according to police documents.
"The police have very recent evidence that she has commenced inquiries into her own departure within the past 36 hours," a police prosecutor told the court.
Trevallion argued that Nita Iskandar had simply been making travel arrangements to attend Saemin's funeral in Malaysia.
Singapore police confirmed they had been tipped off to Andrew Iskandar's arrival.
Police arrested him Wednesday afternoon at Singapore's Changi Airport and he appeared in court Thursday morning, police spokesman William Goh told AFP.
Australian police expect his extradition in coming days.
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