‘She looked lifeless’: teen tells court father used axe to kill Nelomie Perera in Melbourne home

Son of Dinush Kurera, who has pleaded not guilty to wife's murder, gives evidence in supreme court trial

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A teen has told a Melbourne court that his father allegedly repeatedly slashed his mother with an axe in a rage" and then turned the weapon on him when he tried to run for help.

Dinush Kurera's 19-year-old son gave evidence to the Victorian supreme court on Thursday about the evening his father allegedly murdered his mother in their family home.

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