A 22-year-old man has confessed to the police that he murdered his school friend’s mother over a lost Myki card in February last year, court documents have revealed.
48-year-old Melbourne mother Prasad Somawansa was alone at her Hoppers Crossing home when Steve Baea said he stabbed the victim, ABC reported.
Baea was a friend of Ms. Somawansa’s son, Wishhasad in primary school.
Baea told police he was angry because Ms. Somawansa didn’t let him look for his Myki card.
“I told her I wanted to get my Myki card and then she… told me to piss off,” he told police.
“I got angry and I stabbed her, then I went up to get my Myki card but it wasn’t there.”
The court documents also revealed that Ms Somawansa’s husband heard her final moments when called her from Brisbane.
He told police that he could hear his wife speaking but not to him.
“I heard her saying; ‘you go out, you go out, you go out’ … she sounded scared as she said this.
“I heard her yelling.. and then making loud deep breathing noises before the phone was cut off.”
As Ms Somawansa didn’t answer to his call after that, he asked a friend to check on her but she was found dead in the lounge room with the phone next to her.
Baea and Ms. Somawansa’s son, Wishhasad had not been in contact for many years and had bumped into each other just a month before her murder.
Both were hanging out on the night of the murder. Wishhasad had dropped Baea at a nearby service station as he was called on a job with the SES. But Baea told police he returned to the house to look for his lost Myki card.
Wishhasad told police that he did not want Baea to come over that day. He said though he seemed nice but he seemed violent.
Baea is due to appear in the Victorian Supreme Court on Friday.
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