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Emily Woods

UNBELIEVABLE: Rage met rage wife killer s self defence claim | History Defined

Dinush Kurera admits killing his wife but claims it was in self-defence. (James Ross/AAP PHOTOS)

A mother-of-three killed by her estranged husband fled the family home with her children almost a decade earlier after he hit her with a hammer and stomped on her, a jury has been told.

Nelomie Perera, 43, was found dead in her kitchen in December 2022 after Dinush Kurera allegedly murdered her in what prosecutors alleged was a "sustained, brutal and vicious attack" with a hatchet and kitchen knife.

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