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Handyman denies murder of elderly woman, witness claims he heard couple argue: ‘Fix it yourself’
- Stuart Paul Anderson is accused of murdering his elderly neighbor, Vicki Ramadan
- Anderson allegedly beat Ms Ramadan to death between March 23 and 25, 2019
- He pleaded innocent and his lawyer says he cannot be identified as the murderer
- Anderson found Mrs Ramadan’s body in her Melbourne home on April 6, 2019
- He admitted to lying to police twice in interviews about discovering her body
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Vicki Ramadan (above) was found beaten to death at her home in Sydenham in north-western Melbourne on 6 April 2019.
‘She seemed like a very sweet lady, she didn’t deserve this at all.’
That’s what accused murderer Stuart Paul Anderson told a reporter about the woman he accused of brutally beating to death.
There was a widespread call for information in the days and weeks after the body of his 77-year-old neighbor Vicki Ramadan was found at her home in Sydenham in northwestern Melbourne on April 6, 2019.
“I really hope the police catch the bastard,” Anderson said in the interview with A Current Affair.
The raw footage from that interview was played Tuesday before jurors in Anderson’s Victorian Supreme Court murder trial.
He pleaded not guilty to murdering Ms Ramadan sometime between March 23 and 25, 2019.
Witnesses told the jury that they heard multiple fights between them in the days before she was killed.
It was Anderson who called the police after finding her body.
Stuart Paul Anderson (above) found Ms Ramadan’s body and described her as a ‘very sweet lady’ who ‘didn’t deserve this’ but is now charged with murder
He said he first met Ms. Ramadan when she knocked on his door and asked him to help her with some chores.
A taxi dryer saw the pair argue over Anderson arriving late to help her with odd jobs on the morning of March 23, 2019.
Later, another witness heard Anderson yell aggressively at Ms. Ramadan and say ‘f*** you, fix it yourself’ as he put together a flatpack before going home. Later he returned to her house.
Prosecutor Neill Hutton said there were signs of life on March 25 — a call from one of her phones to another at 9:30 a.m. and an electricity spike corresponding to a stovetop at lunchtime.
Anderson told his partner that he would visit Ms. Ramadan and pick up tools he left at her home at 9am on April 6.
Anderson previously told police she discovered Ms. Ramadan’s body at about 9am on April 6 at her home (above), but later told them he found her between 1:30am and 2:00am and knocked on her back door. .
He said he found her body after going through the back door, which had been kicked open.
Anderson stuck with that story during his first two police interrogations, but after officers became suspicious of his story, he told them in August 2019 that he had lied because he found her body on April 6 between 1:30 a.m. and 2:00 a.m. after he himself arrested her. had knocked back. door.
But the problem with what Anderson told the reporter, his partner and the police is that it’s not true, prosecutor Neill Hutton said.
“It’s essentially a sham, a puppet show. It’s false,” he said.
Ms. Ramadan was known for wearing a lot of jewelry, but that money was still in her house, the judges heard.
Anderson’s attorney Glenn Casement said identity was an issue in the trial.
“My client did not kill the deceased,” he said.
The trial for Judge Amanda Fox continues.