'Murdered Indian Australian was still alive when dumped in spa with dead sisters'.Byline: ANI Melbourne, Aug 25 (ANI): Almost six years after Neelma Singh, 24, her brother Kunal, 18, and sister Sidhi, 12, were allegedly murdered in their home in Bridgeman Downs, a Brisbane Court was informed today that the boy was still alive when he was dumped in a steaming spa bath. Pathologist Dr Alex Olumbe was giving evidence this morning at the hearing for Massimo "Max" Sica, 38, who is charged with killing his former girlfriend Neelma, her brother and younger sister in April 2003. Dr Olumbe, who performed autopsies on the three Singh siblings siblings npl (formal) → frères et sœurs mpl (de mêmes parents) , told Brisbane Magistrates Court that all three siblings were bashed with a garden fork. He said Kunal was most likely unconscious when dumped in the bath. The cause of death, in his opinion, was drowning drowning /drown·ing/ (droun´ing) suffocation and death resulting from filling of the lungs with water or other substance. drowning, n asphyxiation because of submersion in a liquid. , The Courier Mail reports. Dr Olumbe said water in the chest cavity cavity /cav·i·ty/ (kav´i-te) 1. a hollow place or space, or a potential space, within the body or one of its organs. 2. in dentistry, the lesion produced by caries. showed Kunal was most likely still alive when he was dumped in the spa with the bodies of his sisters. Earlier, Dr Olumbe told the court that Neelma was strangled stran·gle v. stran·gled, stran·gling, stran·gles v.tr. 1. a. To kill by squeezing the throat so as to choke or suffocate; throttle. b. to death before being put in a spa bath. He told Brisbane Magistrates Court that he believed Neelma was already dead when her body was put in the spa bath, as there was no evidence to suggest she had drowned. Dr Olumbe said Sidhi had suffered extensive head injuries, with multiple fractures multiple fracture n. The simultaneous fracture of several bones. and bone splintering likely caused by severe force with a blunt object. (ANI) Copyright 2009 Asian News International The Asian News International (ANI) agency provides multimedia news to China and 50 bureaus in India. It covers virtually all of South Asia since its foundation and presently claims, on its official website, to be the leading South Asia-wide news agency. (ANI) - All Rights Reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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