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Brisbane murder trial told of hitman plot

A Gold Coast man on trial for his estranged wife’s murder tried to hire a Filipino hitman and demanded sex with virgins, a court has heard.

August 23, 2019

A Gold Coast man accused of murdering his wife tried to hire a Filipino hitman, discussed hiding her body in a cave and demanded sex with virgins, a court has heard.

Novy Chardon, 34, went missing on February 6, 2013, amid a divorce dispute with her 71-year-old husband, John William Chardon.

The mother of two’s body has never been found and more than six years after she disappeared, Chardon is fighting a murder charge.

On Friday, a man Chardon allegedly met via an Asian dating website, Marshall Bari Aguilor, told Brisbane Supreme Court Chardon asked him to help kill a person when the pair met in the Philippines in early 2012.

“I asked him who are you going to kill (and) he said ‘my wife’,” Mr Aguilor said.

“He told me she was neglectful with the children and she had a boyfriend.” 

Chardon had also complained his wife was only interested in money and wanted half of everything.

The jury heard Chardon told Mr Aguilor if he couldn’t carry out the murder personally he should find someone who could.

“He said, ‘If you can find someone I will pay US ten thousand dollars’,” Mr Aguilor said.

Chardon had planned to lure his wife to the Philippines, where she was to be killed, he added.

The pair also discussed “finding a cliff” and hiding Ms Chardon’s body in a cave where her remains would eventually be found “so the children find out”.

Mr Aguilor said Chardon had asked him to buy a gun but local licensing laws delayed the purchase.

Crown prosecutor Mark Green showed the court a log of money transfers from Chardon to Mr Aguilor worth tens of thousands of Philippine pesos throughout 2012.

Some was to buy the gun, some to pay Mr Aguilor and some for six local students Chardon was supporting, Mr Aguilor said.

Pressed by Mr Green, he said Chardon expected “payback time” for his donations to the students.

“He said he doesn’t mind helping, giving them the best that he can give,” Mr Aguilor told the court.

“‘But when I’m in the Philippines, I want favours, I want to have sex with them.’

“He said, ‘If possible, they should be virgin’,” Mr Aguilor said.

Defence barrister Tony Kimmins accused him of trying to scam Chardon.

The court heard the pair first met in Marriott hotel room in Cebu in 2011 when Mr Aguilor acted as an intermediary for his cousin, Mitchillie, who Chardon had met via the dating website.

Mr Aguilor said the meeting only lasted an hour because Mitchillie left saying Chardon was too “fresh” and wanted sex immediately.

“She didn’t like him,” he said.

The trial continues.

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