Toby Loughnane has admitted to negligent manslaughter but is fighting murder charge in Victorian supreme court
Melbourne man told Maryam Hamka ‘wait until I get my hands on you’ in months before her death, court hearsman was in a brief but violent relationship with Maryam Hamka before he murdered her and disposed of her body in bushland, sending her a series of threatening messages in the lead-up to her death, prosecutors allege.
Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup In the months before Hamka’s death, Loughnane physically assaulted her and also sent messages threatening to injure and kill her, Churchill alleged. The last time her mother saw Hamka was on April 9, 2021, when Loughnane was screaming at her to get in a car before she left with him, the prosecutor said.
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