PETALING JAYA: Two shut mates of Singaporean Audrey Fang, 39, who was killed whereas on vacation in Spain, revealed in courtroom that she had recognized her suspected killer for over a decade.
The duo offered their testimonies by way of video hyperlink from Singapore with the help of a translator throughout the listening to, yesterday.
According to Channel News Asia, the listening to, held in chambers and closed to the general public and media, lasted for greater than three hours.
Following the listening to, Manuel Martinez, the lawyer representing Audrey’s household, spoke to the media.
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He said that the witnesses had testified concerning the sufferer’s romantic curiosity in the suspect, Singaporean, Mitchell Ong, 43.
However, they identified that he appeared solely in promoting monetary property to her.
Although the 2 mates had not personally met the suspect, they heard of him by way of Audrey.
They disclosed that she had deliberate to satisfy the suspect in Spain throughout her vacation and had expressed a want to introduce him to her household. He, nonetheless, refused to satisfy them.
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The witnesses said that Audrey had an curiosity in having a boyfriend and she preferred Ong.
Audrey was found with 30 stab wounds in Abanilla, Spain, whereas on a solo journey in April.
The suspect was apprehended about a week later after safety footage confirmed him choosing her up from her lodge.
Previously, Audrey’s brother Benjamin Fang had reportedly stated there are two witnesses who had been shut mates along with his sister.
Benjamin had expressed shock at his sister’s shut relationship with Ong, stating,: “My sister was a down-to-earth, keep dwelling type of woman. The suspect is outwardly the direct reverse.”
Martinez emphasised the household’s name for “as a lot justice as doable” and said that he would search a jail sentence of 20 to 25 years for the suspect if discovered responsible of the crime.
At current, Ong has not been charged and stays in pre-trial detention at Sangonera jail in Murcia, Spain.
Spanish regulation permits for as much as two years of pre-trial detention, extendable by one other two years for critical offences.
Sources near the case point out that the suspect has avoided making a assertion to the authorities.
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Under Spanish regulation, a suspect has the suitable to chorus from doing so.
It was reported earlier by Spanish information outlet La Verdad that on May 16, a courtroom in Cieza was knowledgeable by the CPF Board that Audrey had designated the Ong as her CPF beneficiary.
Around the time of the nomination, near S$200,000 (about RM697,766) was deposited into her CPF account.
The CPF Board confirmed that the sufferer’s financial savings, totaling greater than €430,000 (about RM2.16 million), is not going to be disbursed till the conclusion of the courtroom proceedings in Spain.
