A drug user who buried his dead girlfriend’s body in remote Victorian bushland has been found guilty of her murder. Toby Loughnane, 44, was on trial in the Supreme Court in Melbourne, charged with killing Maryam Hamka at his Brighton home in Melbourne’s southeast. Prosecutors said he murdered the 36-year-old in the early hours of April 11, 2021, after months of violent assaults and threatening text messages.
In his closing address, Loughnane’s lawyer Daniel Sala conceded his client acted reprehensibly towards Hamka in the months before her death and that he disposed of her body in bushland and did not tell investigators until years later. But the lawyer said Loughnane’s only crime was breaching a duty of care by not calling an ambulance on April 11 and he was a heavy drug user who was trying to distance himself from her manslaughter.
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