Herald Sun:
AN Afghan refugee who killed his wife after complaining she had become ”too Australia” has been granted a retrial.
A court drawing of Soltan Ahmad Azizi when he was originally sentenced for the murder of his wife Marzieh Rahimi. Supplied
Soltan Ahmad Azizi was jailed for a minimum of 17 ½ years in 2010 after he strangled Marzieh Rahimi with her veil at the couple’s Hampton Park home in 2007.
The mother-of five was killed in front of the couple’s three-month-old toddler and baby, 22 months.
Azizi allegedly admitted killing his wife and even called the police afterwards, telling them, `You can handcuff me now.”
But in calling for an appeal, lawyers for Azizi argued jurors in the original trial were subject to inadmissible or prejudicial evidence.
They claimed alleged statements by Ms Rahimi about previous physical, psychological and emotional abouse by Azizi were not relevant and should have been excluded.
The trial heard Ms Rahimi had complained that her husband had been violent since the first night of their marriage and she wanted a divorce.
Are they looking for a loose end so they can let the killer off because he’s a muslim supremacist?
This is sick, the Judges who decided to retry him should be removed from the bench.