Vic: Man stabs violent son to death, court told

AAP General News (Australia)
12-08-1999
Vic: Man stabs violent son to death, court told

MELBOURNE, Dec 8 AAP - A man fatally stabbed his son who had become increasingly violent
and abusive after his ex-girlfriend committed suicide, a Melbourne court was told today.

Feti Turan, 59, is charged with the murder of his 32-year-old son, Ufuk Turan, outside
their suburban Keilor Downs home on June 2 this year.

Ufuk Turan was found by his sister Nesrie Turan on the nature strip with stab wounds.

Ms Turan told Melbourne Magistrates Court her brother had been diagnosed as a paranoid
schizophrenic, of which their parents were ashamed.

The court was told he first started to become abusive after he saw his ex-girlfriend
jump from a building on the eve of his wedding to another woman in 1986.

He married the next day and that marriage broke up three to four weeks later because
the woman was not a virgin.

Over the years he threatened to kill his family and abused and swore at them showing
no respect for his father as is customary in Turkish culture, Ms Nesrie said.

Ufuk married again and blamed his father when that marriage failed.

Turan's wife of 35-years Hanzade Turan said on the day of the incident she heard her
husband and son arguing.

She heard her son say something to his father and Turan say "don't do it son", she said.

Turan, who broke down several times during his daughter and wife's evidence, is charged
with murder. He has not been required to enter a plea.

The committal hearing before Magistrate Jill Crowe is continuing.

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KEYWORD: TURAN

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