Former safety guard Cameron Turgay Bardak, 31, spent three hours testifying on Friday throughout his trial in Brisbane Supreme Court on the depend of try and homicide Maria Buci, 30, by putting her with the hatchet and choking her.
Bardak had pleaded responsible to an alternate cost of inflicting grievous bodily hurt to Buci.
While questioned by his barrister, Matthew Hynes, Bardak mentioned July 1, 2020 was the “stupidest day in my life” as a result of he purchased a hatchet to threaten Buci within the occasion that she didn’t agree to speak about resuming their relationship.
“I saw the axe as a good coercive measure if she chose not to comply,” Bardak instructed the jury.
Bardak mentioned intentions to kill or harm Buci “never crossed my mind”, although he admitted he did find yourself hitting her on the hand and shoulder with the weapon.
Buci had met Bardak that day for lunch and he ended the connection, with Buci returning to her work at a legislation agency in central Brisbane.
Bardak testified that he realised he had made a hasty resolution and thought he might reconcile together with her in the event that they spoke in individual at 5pm.
“I didn’t want her to stew on it. In the past that went badly for me. This was a Band-Aid to get our relationship through the night,” Bardak mentioned.
Hynes ran by means of pages of profane and insulting messages Bardak exchanged with Buci earlier than the assault, which included him saying his “life was over”.
“It was about gaining sympathy for manipulation. A kind of ‘look what you made me do’ situation. It was coercive,” Bardak mentioned.
Bardak mentioned he waited for Buci to stroll to her automotive then instructed her to stroll as much as the following degree to his personal automobile.
She refused and he grabbed her by the arm, however she began screaming and wouldn’t cease when he put his hand over her mouth or confirmed her the hatchet.
After he hit bystander David Sturgess on the hand with “six out of 10” pressure, Bardak mentioned he put each his fingers on Buci’s throat.
“With enough (force) to stop her screaming. I’ve never strangled anyone before. I was just winging it,” Bardak mentioned.
Under cross-examination by crown prosecutor Chris Cook, Bardak denied he deliberate a “cowardly murder-suicide” after Buci rejected his calls for for forgiveness.
Cook confirmed Bardak a bystander’s iPhone video of the assault which depicted Bardak on high of Buci with each fingers on her neck.
“This is you wanting to reconcile the relationship? You were thinking about going to tennis with her on Friday?” Cook requested.
“I wanted to get her to my car,” Bardak mentioned.
He denied he acted like a “robot” with the only focus of killing Buci whereas ignoring punches to his head and kidneys from good Samaritans.
“You can’t play tennis with a pile of bones, you can’t plan with someone who’s dead,” Bardak mentioned.
The trial continues on Tuesday.
Source: www.9news.com.au
