A 28-year-old Pakistani security guard was jailed for life by the High Court on Wednesday for killing his Filipina girlfriend with an electric drill.
The jury delivered a 6-1 majority verdict against Safdar Husnain, who was charged with the murder of Andrea Bayr, 25, an Austrian Filipina who was a mother of four, Oriental Daily reported.
Judge Kevin Zervos said the murder was a horrible tragedy that was caused by drug addiction.
The court had heard that on March 29 in 2016, Husnain killed Bayr with an electric drill at a construction site on Tin Hau Road in Tuen Mun in the New Territories. A medical report showed that the victim’s face had a hole caused by a drill and injuries on many parts of her body.
Husnain admitted that they took crystal meth together at the scene before the killing.
Husnain denied that it was a murder but said he was influenced by the drug and had hallucinations when he killed the woman. Psychiatric experts supported his claims saying that drug would have diminished his mental functioning.
However, Judge Zervos said the jury sided with the prosecutor, who argued that the psychiatric findings were based on Husnain’s tale of seeing hallucinations.
Wilma Bayr, mother of the dead woman, told reporters she was happy to see the verdict, as it showed justice had been done, Apple Daily reported.
Wilma said her Austrian husband died 20 years ago and her daughter Andrea had been born in Hong Kong. She sent Andrea back to the Philippines for primary school but her daughter returned to Hong Kong to go to secondary school.
The mother said she knew her daughter was addicted to drugs and unemployed as she had talked about looking for a job.
Andrea’s four children were fathered by two ex-boyfriends she had and they now stay with the Social Welfare Department. Wilma said she was applying to be the custodian of her four grandchildren.
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None of your Business!!!
Do have a problem with that?…western people devorcing too and get other woman….
It wasn’t stated that the 4kids was from different guy!
You just get what you deserve, I guess it’s not enough for your act of foolishness, killing someone it’s not enough!!!
You been judge in this world but still judgment awaiting for you…
Thanks for the fair judgment that gave my fellow citizen the justice for her sudden death in hands of the monster!!
Smith Walt, why? you only seen those mistake if have? You don’t have the right to question! You don’t know what’s the reason behind it and you don’t know what life she had suffered!!
And don’t generalized with your word always!!
Mr.Smith Walt don’t judge my fellow Filipina that way you didnt know her story.Why are you western people not having different wife or husband?I know western people also have that but I don’t have the right to jugde them coz I don’t their story.So pls.be careful of judging anyones life.
Watch your word Smith Walt!
"Jon Jon Andrea’s four children were fathered by two ex-boyfriends", that is according to the article.
Smith Walt, That is her life, who are we to question her, especially if we’re not blood related? If she’s only having fun I’m pretty sure she will not get herself pregnant.
Not all and it is not fun,, yeah I wil admit some of Filipinos are the same to that lady but not all people are the same and not only filipina is having children with diferent fathers, each country has the same things happening to its countrymen, so don’t say only filipina,, like me I am sure I wil have anther kids with anther men because I am divorce and I have plan to married again,, that’s only depends on the case,..
Paging Dr.Agnes Callamard of UN human rights rapporteur and his co conspirator Dr. Hart saying cristal meth does not cause criminal behavior and does not deterriorate the brain. What can you say about this moron.