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Accused Qld wife killer’s trial nears end

The jury at a trial for a Gold Coast businessman accused of murdering his wife amid a bitter divorce row is expected to begin deliberating.

September 6, 2019

A Gold Coast businessman accused of murdering his wife amid a bitter divorce row may learn his fate, with the jury at his trial expected to begin deliberating.

Novy Chardon, 34, vanished on February 6, 2013. The mother-of-two’s body has never been found.

The same day, her husband, John William Chardon, now 72, received a letter from divorce lawyers, which he believed would limit his access to their children.

Prosecutor Mark Green says the letter is central to Chardon’s murder trial.

“He thought he was being told that Novy was going to have control of the children and would control when he could see them,” he told the Brisbane Supreme Court on Thursday.

“There was no way in the world he was putting up with that – that made him furious.”

Mr Green said it may have been the “straw that broke the camel’s back”, along with the “humiliation of finding another place to live, which he really didn’t want to do”.

The Crown has admitted it doesn’t know how Chardon killed Ms Chardon, or where he killed her.

But all the “little things together just simply tell you the truth” that he did, Mr Green said.

Chardon’s efforts to clean the carpet the day after his wife went missing were particularly telling, he said.

“It may be less likely that he would have taken the risk of killing her in the bedroom but maybe he did, and if he did he killed her in such a way that he didn’t leave blood all over the floor,” Mr Green said.

“He could have disabled her in some way, done something to her in the bedroom that let him get her out of the house and kill her out of the house.”

The trial continues on Friday.

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