Dinush Kurera, 47, receives 37-year jail sentence for murdering Nelomie Perera at a Melbourne home in 2022
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A man has been sentenced 37 years’ in jail for murdering his wife with an axe in front of their teenage children, in what a judge has described as a brutal and horrific attack.
In the Victorian supreme court on Thursday, Dinush Kurera, 47, blinked and looked straight ahead as justice Amanda Fox handed down the sentence.
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