A 53-year-old woman has been arrested in Australia and accused of violently killing her husband for financial reasons, although the missing man’s body has never been found.
A particularly shocking affair. In July 2023, police in Bankstown, a suburb of Sydney, Australia, were contacted by the relatives of a man who had not been seen since May 2023, 62-year-old Mamdouh Noufl. Taking into account the information at their disposal, the officers opened an investigation for a “disturbing disappearance”.
They then realized that until the report of his disappearance, Mamdouh Noufl had continued to communicate with his relatives by message and to use his bank card, but that since the start of their investigation, nothing more. As for his wife, Nirmeen Noufl, 53, the latter gave several inconsistent versions of where her husband could be.
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Mamdouh Noufl was never found, but his wife was arrested on Thursday October 3. In a press release, the police unit explains that Mamdouh Noufl’s wife was hospitalized in a psychiatric ward at his request at the time of his arrest. She was placed in pre-trial detention for “murder and domestic violence” and will be tried on December 11, 2024.
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She had cut his body with a saw
According to the investigator in charge of the case cited by ABC Net, the death of Mamdouh Noufl was “brutal, macabre and bizarre”. Her teams accuse, in fact, Nirmeen Noufl of having “massacred and dismembered the body of with knives and an electric saw, placed the parts of her body in plastic bags, then threw her remains in various trash cans in residential areas and industrial sectors of south-west Sydney. Consequence: the different members have never been found and probably never will be.
Nirmeen Noufl then allegedly carried out “a deep cleaning” of their house in Greenacre (in the western suburbs of Sydney), where they regularly welcomed their 8 children, and changed the floor covering. Then, she allegedly took control of her husband’s phone and continued to use his bank card to try to hide his death. And this until the opening of the police investigation. The fifty-year-old was therefore accused by the officer of having “manipulated people and the truth”.
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And that’s not all: Mamdouh Noufl’s wife would have derived “a significant financial benefit from the death of her husband”.
An unexplained fortune
According to “The Guardian”, Nirmeen and Mamdouh Noufl had emigrated to Australia from their native Egypt 30 years ago. But over the past 20 years, the defendant had received government assistance and lived in public housing while accumulating “a lot of unexplained wealth.” And in the last eighteen months, “she traveled to Egypt and sold properties and then bought shares in the United Arab Emirates.”
“She took advantage of Mamdouh’s disappearance by continuing to receive aid and receiving significant profits thanks to the properties sold and the sums obtained,” the head of the investigation laments to our colleagues. We believe that this is a strong motive and that Nirmeen Noufl killed her husband intentionally. »
Our colleagues also specify that Nirmeen Noufl had planned to “travel” in the coming weeks and that investigators decided to hasten her arrest to prevent her from fleeing Australia permanently.
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