Murder charge against Victorian woman dropped after claims she killed husband in her sleep
by Australian Associated Press from World news | The Guardian on (#6V1B1)
Supreme court case discontinued after Ilknur Caliskan, 47, underwent sleep study and her lawyers flagged parasomnia defence
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A woman charged over the death of her husband will no longer face a murder trial after prosecutors dropped the case against her following a sleep study.
Ilknur Caliskan, 47, was accused of stabbing her husband to death in September 2023, after the 50-year-old was found dead inside a car at Clonbinane, north of Melbourne.
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