Sri Lankan found guilty of wife’s murder in Australia

Kurera blinked and looked straight ahead as the verdicts were handed down.

An estranged husband who claimed he was acting in self-defence when he hacked his wife to death in the Melbourne suburb of Sandhurst has been found guilty of murder by an Australian court.

A Victorian Supreme Court jury took less than three hours to deliberate before convicting Dinush Kurera, 47, of murder on Friday.

He faced a month-long trial over the death of his wife Nelomie Perera. Jurors also found Kurera was guilty of assaulting his son.

Kurera blinked and looked straight ahead as the verdicts were handed down.

He was returned to custody and will be sentenced at a later date.