Let us not forget British Australian
Businessman, Robert Ellis who was murdered in Bali. Let us learn about the case
with these sources:
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British man Robert Kelvin Ellis (left), here
with wife Noor Ellis (right) was found in a rice paddock with his throat cut in
October 2014
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Robert Kevin Ellis, murdered in Bali execution style, had children
living in Australia
October 23, 20145:06 am
Cindy
Wockner and Komang ErvianiNews Corp Australia Network
POLICE in
Bali said two of the housemaids working for Robert and Noor Ellis had now also
been detained as suspects in Mr Ellis’ murder.
Noor Ellis
has already been named as suspect, accused of ordering her husband’s death,
along with one of the four men who killed him in the kitchen of their Bali
villa.
Police
allege that two of the housemaids, who are now also in custody, had kept the
family’s dog quiet when the murder was underway and had helped dump the body in
the ditch.
Bali police
spokesman Hery Wiyanto said the two housemaids were in police custody, along
with Noor Ellis and one of the men who allegedly carried out the murder.
Forensics
police spent the day combing through the couple’s Sanur villa and emerged
saying only a small amount of blood had been found inside.
The couple’s car, used to take the
body from the villa to the ricefield where it was dumped, has also been searched
and examined.
Sources said that when police arrived
at the villa to tell Mrs Ellis that her husband’s body had been discovered that
she was relaxing and watching television and she did not appear shocked.
The couple owned several businesses in
Bali and Jakarta and Mr Ellis often spent the week in Jakarta working on his
telecommunications business, PT Masindo Utama Nusantara.
The company’s website has a photograph
of Mr Ellis and the words In Memorial on its front page, along with his dates
of birth and death.
It is a supplier of GSM, 3G and fiber
optic equipment to the Indonesian telecommunications industry.
Mrs Ellis also owned dive company in
Bali called Blue Fin.
The details emerged after the
Perth-based sons of Elli, spoke of their grief over his death.
Mr Ellis’ sons Peter, 19, and John,
23, released a statement to News Corp Australia.
“We are both completely
devastated by the loss by our dad Bob Ellis, who has been such a vital part of
our lives,”
the statement read.
“The circumstances
surrounding the death of our father is something that we are still trying to
understand and come to terms with.
“We are surrounded by
family and friends at this time who care for us enormously.
“We ask for everyone’s
understanding of our need for privacy at this difficult and extremely sad
time.”
The 60-year-old man’s throat had been
slashed and his hands and feet tied up.
Indonesian Police say the victim,
known also as Mr Bob, had British and Australian citizenship and lived in
Melbourne before moving to Bali.
His Australian passport was only
renewed in March this year.
It is understood Peter Ellis was
studying at Wesley College in Perth in 2010.
He is now thought to be studying
marketing, advertising and public relations at Perth’s Edith Cowan University.
Police say Robert Ellis also had two
children to his first marriage, a daughter who lives on Christmas Island and a
son who lives in New Zealand.
Badung police chief, Komang Suartana
claims that Noor had helped dispose of his body with Ngongo, and two female
maids, 25km from the Sanur villa where the couple lived.
Suartana alleges Noor drove the car
with his body to the dumping ground.
All, he said, could be charged with
premeditated murder, which in Indonesia carries a maximum death sentence.
“The victim’s wife is the mastermind
of the murder,” Suartana said.
“The two housemaids were also waiting
outside the villa, they calmed down the dog. They can also be considered a
suspect as they knew about the murder but did not report it,” he said.
“The victim’s wife was involved in
disposing the body, with her housemaids and one executor.”
Suartana said Noor had confessed to
the crime. They say she wanted her husband’s money and revenge, as he had
cheated on her.
“The execution took place in their
villa. Five paid executers murdered the victim in the (kitchen of the) villa,”
Suartana said.
Police tracked down Noor, after she
called the victim’s mobile phone, found next to his body in the rice field.
The phone was waterlogged, but they
recovered its SIM card.
Police say when they first met Noor at
the Bali Emerald Villa number C6 to discuss her husband’s death, she presented
as ‘sad’.
Ellis’ body was found on Tuesday
morning by a farmer and was taken to Sanglah morgue for an autopsy.
The farmer originally saw the body in
the ditch on Monday morning but did not realise it was a body until Tuesday,
when he looked more closely.
A doormat was also found near the
body, along with some US dollars.
Ida Bagus Putu Alit, the head of the
forensic team, said the victim’s throat had been cut and there were three open
wounds in the neck and chin.
He said the victim probably died about
18 to 24 hours before the body was found, so in the early morning of Monday.
Police are still trying to find the
knife used in the murder.
Police have said that the couple was
last seen together about 1.10pm local time on Sunday, leaving the villa complex
by car.
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Robert Ellis'
Australian passport. Picture: News Corp Australia.Source: Supplied
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Their mother hired hitmen to 'slash their father's throat and throw his body into a ditch over money and affairs.' Now her two sons say she must face justice... even if it means a Bali firing squad
- Noor Ellis admits planning execution-style killing of husband Robert Ellis
- Mr Ellis' neck was slashed and his body dumped at home in Bali in October
- Noor paid $14,000 to five hit men to carry out the murder in his kitchen
- Two sons want justice even if it means the death penalty for their mother
A Balinese
woman charged with murdering her Australian husband is expecting the death
penalty and her sons believe she probably deserves it.
Noor Ellis
has admitted a role in the killing of her husband, Australian businessman
Robert Ellis, at their home in Bali last October. She told authorities she had
paid two men to carry out the slaying.
The
couple's two sons, Peter and John, have revealed they are reconciled with the
possibility that their mother could face the death penalty if she is convicted
at a trial currently underway in Indonesia.
Both sons
have refused to attend their mother’s court hearing.
Instead,
Peter’s girlfriend, Maddison McNeil appeared at the hearing and was shocked
when a handcuffed Ellis ran to hug her and asked her to pray.
‘She’s
still Noor, but she’ll never be the same and we’ll never be the same’ McNeil
told Channel Seven's Sunday Night program.
Both sons
were questioned about whether they will regret agreeing with the death penalty
for their mother in ten years.
‘If
that happens, it happens,’ Peter said.
‘But
we want justice for our dad no matter what.’
The
60-year-old's body, with wrists and feet bound, was found wrapped in plastic,
dumped in a ditch in a rice field near Sedang Village.
Among the
eight people arrested over the brutal execution-style murder were the couple’s
two former maids and the boyfriend of one of the maids.
Another two suspects were arrested in November following a two-hour chase that ended in a violent confrontation.
The men, both aged 24, resisted arrest by firing
poisonous arrows and using machetes.
They were finally apprehended after both were shot
in the leg.
Sunday Night reported police allege the maids has
been paid to remove Robert’s dog so that it would not bark while five men
jumped him in the kitchen and slashed his throat, nearly decapitating him.
Peter and
John text messaged their mother to ask where their father was to which she
chillingly replied, ‘I’ll ask him when I see him.’
When Ellis
was arrested at the end of last year, she admitted to police and her two
Perth-based sons that she paid $14,000 to men to carry out the murder with her
motive likely being his $30 million estate.
Noor’s
lawyers have claimed that Robert was abusive and the hit men were only paid to
scare her husband, not murder him.
Police have
also alleged Noor confessed to ordering his murder because he cheated on her
'often' and has claimed that she was possessed by a spirit or a monster and pushed
to organise Robert’s killing by an outside supernatural force.
Her sons,
Peter and John Ellis have told The West Australian of the perils they face, not
only of a life without their father, but potentially without their mother as
well.
‘Mum
felt like she wasn’t being treated well enough, she wasn’t given enough money,’
Peter said.
‘And
her only option in her mind was to murder my dad.’
In early
January police reportedly handed a brief of evidence to prosecutors which
claimed the victim’s wife paid hit-men 150 million rupiah, or $14,200 AUD,
according to The Daily Telegraph.
Officials confirmed that Mr Ellis had a UK passport
and had lived in Australia before moving to the seaside area of Sanur, Bali
with his wife.
Ellis also has two other children from a former
relationship. At the time of their father’s death, the four children and Mr
Ellis’ brother John released a joint statement.
‘Bob was a loving and devoted father, grandfather,
brother, son and husband. His loss leaves a hole in the lives of everyone he
touched.’
‘His work in business created jobs for thousands of
Indonesians. He was a good and honourable man.
'His integrity, generosity and spirit is evidenced
by the way the business community both expat and Indonesian have rallied to support
us and show their respects.’
This case
has come as two Australian drug smugglers, Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran,
face the imminent death penalty in Bali which is expected to happen in the
coming weeks.
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60-year-old Robert Ellis's (left) body was
found wrapped in plastic with his wrists and feet bound and was dumped in a
ditch in a rice field near Sedang Village. Sons Peter (centre) and John (right)
now face the loss of their mother too if she gets the death penalty for their
father's murder
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Noor Ellis murder trial: Balinese woman’s sons say mother deserves death
penalty for killing Robert Ellis
March 8,
20157:25pm
Zoe
SmithNews Corp Australia Network
THE
devastated sons of slain Australian businessman Robert Ellis say their Balinese
mother deserves the death penalty.
Noor Ellis
has admitted a role in the killing of her 60-year-old husband, who was found
with his throat cut in a rice paddy after he was attacked at the couple’s
luxury villa in Bali last October.
She
allegedly hired seven men and women to kill him and paid them $14,000.
The couple’s two sons, Peter and John,
told Seven’s Sunday Night they have come to the terms with the possibility that
their mother could face death penalty by firing squad if she is convicted at
the trial, which is currently underway in Bali.
“Mum deserves the
consequences — she’s just going to have to face it,” Peter, 20, said.
“We realise that, we just
want justice served, whatever that means.”
When asked by the interviewer if that
meant the death penalty, he nodded.
Noor’s sons said she initially lied to
them about the whereabouts of their father but later confessed she had arranged
the killing, saying she was “possessed”.
“She said, ‘it wasn’t me, it was
someone else’. Something inside her like a spirit or a monster that just, you
know, pushed her to do it,” John Ellis told Sunday Night.
“She says she was possessed.”
Police allege Noor’s maids had been
paid to take away Bob’s pet dog so it wouldn’t bark while five men hid in the
kitchen. The men then allegedly tackled Bob to the floor and cut his throat
with a carving knife.
The sons believe the motive for the
murder was their father’s $30 million estate and suspect their mother is working
from jail to try to take control of key assets from their father’s business
empire.
Bob Ellis had two children from his
first marriage in New Zealand, which ended in the late 1980s.
He met and fell in love with Noor —
who was 15 years younger than him — and the pair married in 1991.
In the early days of the couple’s
relationship, family friend Ross Taylor said, Noor was a “a charming and
dynamic business lady”.
As her husband’s business empire and
wealth grew, she became “a power wife” and was clearly the boss in the
marriage.
The couple’s marriage soured and by
mid-2014 was close to breaking point after Bob claimed Noor had stolen $250,000
of family money.
The sons claim that a week after their
father’s murder, their mother’s lawyer tricked them into posing for a photo
with her, which she then used to falsely claim she had their full support.
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Murdered Australian businessman Robert
Ellis' wife deserves death penalty, his brother says
Jewel Topsfield and Amilia Rosa
Published: April 23, 2015 - 5:24PM
Jakarta: The brother of slain
Australian businessman Robert Ellis has said he would like his former
sister-in-law to receive the death penalty for allegedly ordering the hit.
Noor Ellis is charged with
premeditated murder over the brutal death of her husband of 25-years, whose
body was found wrapped in plastic and dumped in a rice paddy last
October. His throat had been slashed with a kitchen knife.
"I'd be happy with
death, I've got no qualms about it. I've always been an eye for an eye
person,"
David Ellis said outside the Denpasar District Court.
"She took a life, she
can forfeit (her own). It's also very hard for the family to go forward while
she is alive, she's made it very awkward for everyone."
According to a police document read in
court, Robert and Noor's son John Michael Ellis, asked for his
mother's life to be spared because she was the sole breadwinner for the family.
However John told Fairfax Media this
was false.
"When giving
my statement not once did I ever agree to giving a lesser sentence," John said.
"I want no part in it
and only want the justice system to do the right thing."
John said he had made a statement at
the police station on December 24.
Two lawyers, a translator, the police
chief and Noor's sister were present in the room and Noor was in an adjoining
room separated by glass, so you could see and hear what was happening on the
other side.
"After I signed off the statement
I went home thinking everything went ok. It wasn't until today that my mother's
lawyer used my statements to defend my mother," John said.
"I was also told that during the
statement no-one is allowed to be in the room apart from the translator and the
police officer but everyone was there."
John's brother, Peter Ellis,
tweeted: "My brother's statement in the Ellis case was forged and
false."
Peter said they had made it clear in
their interview on Channel 7 on Sunday they wanted justice done. "Not a
lenient sentence," he tweeted.
According to the statement read
in court by prosecutor Gede Raka Arimbawa, John said that after his father
was murdered and his mother arrested, he and Peter had no-one and could not
continue with their education because no one was paying for it.
He said they even had to rely on
Noor's sister for food.
Noor wept as the statement was read.
But David Ellis said that while
it was true the boys were now dependent on relatives, it was
"ridiculous" to suggest Noor was a breadwinner. "She's not a
breadwinner, she never has been," he said.
The defence case is that Noor asked a
maid's boyfriend to take care of her problems with her husband, not to kill
him.
She said Ellis had not given her
enough money and even took the money for their son's schooling.
"Because his attitude didn't
change, I couldn't stand it anymore," Noor told the court earlier this
month.
"Once I asked for divorce but he
didn't want to. He said we should just go on, in our own way."
David was scornful when told the
defence would pursue the line that Noor suffered from battered wife syndrome.
"She certainly wasn't battered.
Christ, she lived in a villa. He never laid a hand on her. She had full access
to everything she wanted to and she could have walked away," David said.
"I never saw her with any less
than five million rupiah ($500AUD) on her and at least $10,000 worth of
jewellery. Never. She would buy clothes and drop them on the floor and the
maids would come and pick them up and she would buy more. That's all she would
do - spend money."
He said the family was fighting for
Ellis's estate purely to prevent Noor having access to it.
"They can throw the estate into
the ocean as long as Noor doesn't get it," David said.
"The problem with Indonesia ...
is that it's all about the money. Well it's not; for us it's about
justice. We don't care a damn about the estate here. The only reason we will
fight for the estate is to make sure Noor doesn't get it. It's their (Peter and
John's) inheritance, it's what he worked so hard for and she's destroyed it. So
what remnants are left belong to them."
In the purported statement, John
said he had been living and studying in Australia and found about his father's
death through the media.
He tried to call Noor but could not
reach her on the mobile phone.
John allegedly said his mother had
been treated badly by his father. He got angry a lot with her, and they had
differing opinions on whether he and his brother should study in
Australia. He said his mother had once planned to buy or build a house in
Australia, but his father disagreed.
Noor will be cross examined next
Tuesday.
The body in
the Bali rice field: Why Peter and John Ellis can't forgive their mother Noor,
accused of the murder of their father Robert
Jewel Topsfield
Published: May 29, 2015 - 12:53PM
Days before the corpse
of Australian businessman Robert Ellis was discovered in a Bali rice
field last October, his wife Noor called their son, Peter. He was about to
start a job at Australia Post and Noor was bursting with maternal pride. The
conversation still haunts Peter.
"She said: 'I'm proud of you,
well done' … really motherly stuff. She was being a loving mother and behind
the scenes she was plotting the murder of my father." He is still
incredulous.
These days Peter and his brother John
refer to their mother in the past tense. "One hundred per cent, it is like
she is dead," Peter says. But Noor is still alive. She is in a fetid cell
in Bali's Kerobokan prison; a few kilometres and an entire world away from the
sumptuous Sanur villa where she lived with Robert. And on Wednesday, a court
will decide if she is guilty of masterminding the gruesome death of her husband
of 25 years.
There were a few cracks in the Ellis
marriage, but not many. Peter noticed his parents were sleeping in separate
rooms when he visited in September last year. Noor didn't accompany them on
family outings, which was unusual. Kelvin Ellis, Robert's son from his first
marriage, also thought his father seemed a bit distant during a family holiday
to New Zealand in June. But there was nothing remarkable. If anything, Robert's
brother David assumed their relationship was just going through that inevitable
readjustment period when children have flown the coup.
When David, who lives in Perth,
celebrated Robert's birthday with the couple in April, he asked Robert's advice
about buying a villa in Bali.He too has an Indonesian wife. Robert explained
that under Indonesian law foreigners can't own property, so it was all in
Noor's name. "He stated to me a few times if their marriage had broken up,
he wouldn't have got another marriage," David says. The couple were
perceived by others as "quintessential role models" for successful
mixed-race marriages.
David had always liked Noor. There
were narcissistic elements to her personality, sure, but she was an easy person
to talk to. "I enjoyed Noor's company," David says. "If they had
divorced I would have been happy to go and see her sometimes if she was living down
the road." The boys also enjoyed a healthy relationship with their mother.
They were largely brought up by nannies in Jakarta, which is common in expat
and wealthy Indonesian circles, but Noor was always warm and affectionate. When
they went to boarding school at Perth's Wesley College and then Edith Cowan
University, Noor peppered them with text messages and phone calls. Nothing
could have prepared them for what happened.
A week after Noor rang Peter to tell
him how proud she was of his new job, he was scrolling through his Facebook
feed. CNN was reporting breaking news: the body of an Australian had been found
in a rice paddy in Bali. "Initially I couldn't imagine it would have been
Dad," Peter says. But later his girlfriend Madison called. She had seen the
6pm news. "I think it's your Dad," she said. Peter desperately tried
to get in contact with Noor. "She wasn't answering calls, which is
bizarre, because she had her phone with her all the time," Peter says.
"At the time I thought something might have happened to her as well."
The family were never informed by
Indonesian police or the Australian Consulate in Bali. "I rang the
consulate," David says. "They just gave us a brochure with some names
of funeral directors and lawyers."
A few days later Noor confessed to police
her role in Robert's death. Five hitmen were also arrested, along with two
housemaids, who are alleged to have kept the couple's dog quiet during the
murder. Robert's throat had been slit in the kitchen of their Sanur villa.
His body was wrapped in plastic and then dumped in a rice field. "What
went wrong for Noor was they were supposed to suffocate him and make it
disappear but when they cut his throat the blood was instantly noticed because
there was a lot of it," David says. Noor's sons still struggle to make
sense of it. "She could have walked out the door. Everything was under her
name. Dad couldn't touch any of it," John says.
For David, it is something impossible
to rationalise. He says Noor was "right into the dark side of the
occult". An adherence to black magic is common in Indonesia, where many
believe in paranormal powers. Even President Suharto consulted dukun, the
Indonesian-Malay term for shaman. Noor said she had tried to place a
voodoo-curse on Robert. His body was found scattered with US dollar bills.
David says there is a belief that if someone picks up the money the bad luck
will be transferred to them. "Noor was a bit like
a crackhead down a deep hole. She probably got so angry and so vengeful she
didn't even think about the proper way of doing things. That's the only way you
can explain the money on the top of the body - there is no other way to explain
that."
Prosecutors have asked that Noor be
jailed for 15 years for premeditated murder. It's a sentence that seems
ludicrously light for the family, who want life imprisonment or in David's
case, the death penalty.
"I think Noor would have got more
in Australia," David says. "I saw someone got 32 years the other day.
In Indonesia, when you are a drug trafficker you are a mass murderer. When you
slit someone's throat you are just killing one person."
Noor's defence team insist she is
innocent. They say she did not give the order for Robert to be murdered. The
implements Noor gave the hitmen - a pillow and a towel - did not cause the
stabbing wounds that killed him. "She only instructed to have her problems
with her husband handled," Noor's lawyer, Ketut Suwiga Arya Dauh said last
week.
The defence painted Robert as a
womaniser who deprived Noor of money from their business enterprises. She
claimed he had not given her enough money and even took the money for their
sons' schooling.
"Because his attitude didn't
change, I couldn't stand it anymore," Noor told the court earlier this
year.
"Once I asked for divorce but he
didn't want to. He said we should just go on, in our own way."
Noor has tried to get the boys to
corroborate this evidence but they refuse. They say she was neither poor nor a
victim of domestic abuse.
"She's got a stack of credit
cards two inches thick that Dad would have paid for," Peter says.
"She's got piles of jewellery, shoes … the whole lot."
Peter says he will never forget Noor
telling him: "I'm the only one you've got now, so now it's time to help
me'. "After court she told everyone she wants us to live together and be a
happy family," Peter says. "The person who has ruined your life and
taken everything away from you? She can't ask forgiveness from us because that
is not going to happen."
Under the Forfeiture Rule in
Australia, a murderer cannot benefit from the will of the victim. This is known
as the Slayer Statute in the United States. However there is no equivalent law
in Indonesia that will prevent Noor from accessing Robert's money. Tracing the
couple's property assets will also be next to impossible because they are in
Noor's name. The family has vowed to fight for Peter and John's inheritance -
and for the New Zealand side of Robert's family - but they acknowledge it will
be a marathon and not a sprint.
The last few months have taken their
toll on the family. None of them are the same people. "I was a second year
uni student who didn't even know what a will or a trust account was prior to
November," Peter says. Peter and John have dropped out of Edith Cowan
University, where they were studying marketing and computer science
respectively. Peter hopes to resume his studies in July. "Hopefully I'll
be able to think straight," he says.
Robert was a hard worker, but when his
sons came to visit he would stay in Bali and telecommute rather than travelling
to Jakarta. "It was picture perfect - me and Dad would go fishing, go out
for dinners," Peter says. "There is no point in being here if Dad is
not around. Whenever I come here, I expect Dad to be at the airport and give me
a big hug."
David recalls a "cheerful
bugger", who knew the names of all the street vendors on his 6am walks.
"He had a characteristic way of standing, laughing and talking," he
says.
Most of the family will be in court on
Wednesday. They want the eyes of the the world to be watching too. "A lot
of people knew Rob." David says. "Other expats who are buying things
and getting married might want to reconsider."
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Son of British businessman murdered in a contract killing ordered by his Balinese wife slams his mother's 12-year prison term and calls for her to receive the death penalty
- Noor Ellis was sentenced to 12 years for the murder of her husband Robert
- The businessman was found dead at their Bali home last October
- His body was found wrapped in plastic and dumped in a ditch in rice field
- She previously admitted hiring hitmen as she wanted to teach husband a lesson because he refused to give her money or grant her a divorce
- Couple's youngest son Peter has slammed the sentence as a 'disgrace'
The son of
a Balinese woman sentenced to 12 years in jail for ordering the murder of her
British husband today branded the sentence a 'disgrace' and called for her to
receive the death penalty.
Noor Ellis
paid five hitmen to kill her 60-year-old husband, businessman Robert Ellis, at
their home in Bali last October.
After her
sentence, her youngest son Peter, 19, tweeted: 'Noor Ellis has just been given
12 years for the premeditated murder of my father.
'What a
disgrace #NoJustice #EllisCase #DeathPenalty?'
In a statement outside court, Mr Ellis's family had earlier said: 'For the verdict to be a sentence of only 12 years is unjust not only for us as a family but Indonesia in general.
‘We as a family are still coming to terms with this
sentencing decision and would like an appeal from the Prosecutor.’
Peter and his older brother John, 23, were in
Denpasar court on Wednesday for the verdict and sentencing.
They argue
that anything less than 20 years was inadequate and immediately called on the
prosecution to appeal the sentence.
Ellis could
have been sentenced to the maximum death penalty for premeditated murder.
Prosecutors
instead recommended 15 years in prison for paying five men $14,000 for the
crime, in which the 60-year-old was ambushed in his Sanur villa in October,
held down on the kitchen floor and his throat slashed.
Ellis says she arranged for her husband to be
'taught a lesson' for keeping her in an unhappy, unfaithful marriage.
Mr Ellis's body, with wrists and feet bound, was
found wrapped in plastic and dumped in a ditch in a rice field
near Sedang Village.
In sentencing Ellis to 12 years, Judge Wirakanta
said factors in her favour were her politeness during trial, her remorse and
'prolonged mental pressure'.
In May, Ellis wept as prosecutor Made Dipa
Umbara told a court in the Balinese capital Denpasar that she should serve 15
years.
According to Perth Now he told the court: 'The
defendant's actions caused the victim's death.'
She
previously admitted hiring hitmen to murder her husband as she wanted to teach
him a lesson because he refused to give her money or grant her a divorce.
Mr Ellis
was set upon in his own kitchen on the Indonesian island by the five killers,
who slashed his throat 'like killing a pig', police said.
Mrs Ellis
employed the men, along with two housemaids to clean up the murder. Police
allege she paid the killers a total of $A14,220 (£7,245).
One of the
Ellis's sons, Peter, responded in shock to the recommendation last month.
'How can a
maximum of death sentence be reduced to 15 years?' he tweeted. 'Is this a joke?
I feel sick.'
At a court
appearance last month Mrs Ellis told Judge Beslin Sihombing that her husband
died 'Because of the order from me'.
She said:
'For a long time he hadn't given me sufficient [money], [he] even took the
money for my kids' schooling.
'Because
his attitude didn't change, I couldn't stand it anymore. Once I asked for
divorce but he didn't want to,' she said.
'He said we
should just go on, in our own way.'
Her sons
said they were furious at Noor's claim that her husband had ill-treated her by
having affairs and not giving her enough money to live on comfortably.
'We are
very upset about the accusations against our father which Noor herself has
fabricated in order to defend herself,' said Peter.
He added that their father was a loving man, grandfather, brother, son and husband who had left an enormous hold in the lives of all those he had touched.
The brothers had sat in the court, watching their
mother, along with Mr Ellis's two children from a previous marriage, Kelvin and
Christina.
In interviews in Australia, they had made it clear
they never wanted to see her mother again after looking at her for the last
time at her sentencing hearing.
During the hearing Judge Anak Agung Wirakanta said
that in her defence Noor had shown regret and had confessed her role in the
murder.
She had no previous criminal record and had been
affected mentally by what she had done.
The murderer who actually used the knife on Mr
Ellis, Urbanus Yoh Ghoghi, was also sentenced to just 12 years in jail, along
with another attacker, Yohanes Sairokodu.
For their part in the crime, which sent shock waves
around the holiday island, they would have received from Noor the equivalent of
just £1,500 each.
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SOURCE: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3117913/Wife-hired-hitmen-murder-Australian-husband-dump-body-Bali-rice-field-jailed-12-YEARS.html
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