By CASEY NEILL
THE haunting sounds of wailing women in mourning filled Marna Court, Noble Park, last Tuesday as news of a 31-year-old mother of four’s death reached her family and friends.
Homicide Squad detectives in the afternoon of 5 November charged Doveton man Bona Lual, 36, with murder.
They allege he killed his former partner in her home while her children, aged two to 12, slept nearby.
“It’s hard to know what to do to make people that are that upset at ease,” Homicide Squad Detective Senior Sergeant Stephen McIntyre said of the women gathering in the home’s front yard.
“There’s no words that are going to make it better.”
Paramedics found the body following a triple zero call about 2am.
“The call was that a woman had been hurt at this location,” Sen Sgt McIntyre said.
“Simultaneously to that phone call being made, a man, who we believe is the man who made the phone, call attended at the Dandenong Police Station and surrendered himself to police.”
Lual was remanded at an out of sessions hearing at Dandenong Police Station on Tuesday and the following day faced an administrative hearing at Melbourne Magistrates’ Court.
A magistrate ordered him to submit to DNA tests and again remanded him.
He’s to reappear for a committal mention in February.
Neighbours told the Journal that the woman kept to herself and the street was “very quiet”.
Investigators believe Lual and the deceased were at a party at a hall in Dandenong North earlier in the night and want to speak to anyone who might have seen them.
Call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 with any information.
