After murdering his girlfriend of a month, Joon Seong Tan allegedly dumped her physique in a wheelie bin and watched as a rubbish truck collected her stays, a jury has been instructed.
Ju 'Kelly' Zhang was final seen alive by her eight-year-old son whereas carrying a pink nightgown watching one thing on her laptop computer on her mattress.
They'd simply had a dinner of lamb chops and rooster soup, and Zhang had saved a plate for a person named Eric, who she had been seeing after connecting on WeChat.
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She instructed her pal she preferred that man higher than Joon Seong Tan, who she had met on-line a few month earlier.
He was at her home that night time and shared dinner along with her and her son.
However whereas she had reportedly soured on the connection, he was eager on her and referred to her as his "spouse" in conversations with pal, jurors in his homicide trial have been instructed.
Tan has pleaded not responsible to a cost alleging he murdered Zhang simply after 6pm on February 2, 2021 after an argument about her seeing another person.
"She was subjected to what the proof confirmed is a sustained, deliberate sharp drive assault together with at the very least one stab to the realm of the guts," prosecutor Jeremy McWilliam stated.
He stated the lies Tan allegedly instructed, the lengths to cowl up her demise and his involvement in it, and his try to flee have been all items of a puzzle from which a transparent image emerges.
It is alleged Tan requested a pal to come back to Zhang's Epping residence in Melbourne on the night time of her demise, and instructed him that they had argued and fought, and he killed her by accident earlier than cleansing up and placing her physique in a laundry cabinet.
He allegedly moved her physique right into a wheelie bin and drove to Heidelberg West and positioned the bin with others out for assortment.
The next morning, after driving Zhang's son to high school, he allegedly returned and watch the rubbish truck empty the bin, earlier than returning it to Zhang's residence.
Tan allegedly then known as her shut pal to inform her she was lacking and the 2, together with Zhang's former husband, then reported her lacking to police.
In a press release to officers, Tan stated Zhang had gone out in her pyjamas and slippers, taking her cell phone and nothing else, about 6pm.
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Zhang's physique was found by police throughout a search of landfill at Wollert in June 2021.
His barrister, Greg Hughan, stated Tan disputed the prosecution case.
"He maintains Ms Zhang left the house about 6pm and didn't return, and he tried to search out her," he stated.
He denied Tan had put Zhang's physique in a bin and brought it to Heidelberg West.
Tan was arrested and launched by police after being interviewed on February 6, 2021.
He later made preparations to fulfill officers at his residence however didn't present up.
Tan was arrested at Melbourne Airport on February 10.
The Supreme Court docket trial earlier than Justice Mandy Fox is predicted to run for 4 weeks.