Ex-South African jailed for wife's murder in Australia

A former South African man was sentenced to 23 years in jail by the West Australian Supreme Court for killing his wife and burying her body in the back yard of their Perth, Australia home. Ahmed Dawood Seedat was found guilty of bludgeoning his wife Fahima Yusuf to death with a wheel brace, mainly because he wanted to pursue a relationship with her sister and also because his wife was 'sexually aggressive', TimesLIVE reports. Judge Bruno Fiannaca reportedly described the killing as callous, brutal and cowardly. It emerged during the case that Seedat had also conducted an online search for: 'Can you marry your brother-in-law if your sister is dead muslim?'. 'You envisaged a future with your sister-in-law ... you had become emotionally dependent on her,' Fiannaca said. Seedat's lawyer Bernard Standish previously told the court his client had lost attraction for his wife and that he could no longer meet her 'sexual demands'. Seedat claimed his wife's final words were 'I love you'. But Fiannaca said that only demonstrated her desperation to stop him from killing her. The court also heard that following the murder, Seedat told friends and neighbours that Yusuf had gone to the UK for eye surgery and he told her sister that she had left him. Fiannaca said it was part of Seedat's narcissistic traits that he thought people would believe his lies and he would get away with the crime. 'It may have been technically clumsy, but it was calculated behaviour,' he said.