Wednesday, October 21, 2015

ROBERT ELLIS (1 APRIL 1954 TO 20/21 OCTOBER 2014)



            Let us not forget British Australian Businessman, Robert Ellis who was murdered in Bali. Let us learn about the case with these sources:


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

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.


Robert Ellis' Australian passport. Picture: News Corp Australia.Source: Supplied

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.


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

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.



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."

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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