A husband is accused of murdering his wife with a homemade spear made from a knife tied to a pole, just months after a court lifted a restraining order issued to protect her.
Talaat Hawatt, 35, also known as Terrance Howot, allegedly murdered his wife and mother of his five children, Khouloud Bakour Hawatt, 31, in their unit in Belmore, south-west Sydney, on Wednesday morning .
Emergency services discovered her body after attending the scene at 7.50am amid reports of a “distressed woman”.
Homicide detectives established the crime scene and, following investigation, Hawatt was arrested 30 kilometers away, at a home in Denham Court, less than an hour later. He was charged with several crimes, including murder.
Now, it has been revealed that on February 14 a police officer lodged an ADVO in Bankstown Local Court ordering Hawatt to stay away from his wife and family home.
An interim ADVO was issued prohibiting Hawatt from contacting, assaulting, threatening, stalking his wife or damaging any of her property.
However, the following month, the couple requested that it be changed to allow them to return to the house, the Sydney Morning Herald information.
The amendments were granted at Bankstown Local Court four months later in August, allowing Hawatt to return to the property.
Talaat Hawatt, 35, allegedly murdered his wife and mother of his five children, Khouloud Bakour Hawatt, 31. They appear together in the photo about 10 years ago.
Police are seen outside a house in Sydney’s southwest on Wednesday.
Following his arrest, Hawatt was taken to Campbelltown Police Station and charged with murder (domestic violence), contravening a detained domestic violence order, using a prohibited weapon contrary to prohibition order and breaching access order. to digital evidence.
Hawatt was remanded in custody to appear at Campbelltown Local Court via video link on Thursday, where he was again refused bail.
The charges come after new photos emerged of the couple’s seemingly happy marriage less than a decade ago.
The couple, who married in Lebanon in 2015, have five children ranging in age from six months to eight years.
Photos from their wedding show them posing for the camera arm in arm, with Mrs Hawatt carrying a bouquet of white roses and her husband in a three-piece suit.
In another image, they look longingly into each other’s eyes, clueless to the horror that will supposedly unfold less than 10 years later.
Earlier on Wednesday, Campsie Superintendent Sheridan Waldau said the woman died “sometime early this morning” and that officers allegedly stumbled upon “a very violent murder scene.”
Sitting arm in arm, the couple poses for the camera on their wedding day (pictured)
She confirmed that Hawatt was known to the strike force targeting domestic violence offenders known as Operation Amarok and that his wife had a violence warrant out against her when she was allegedly murdered.
“I know that Amarok had dealt with him before and that Campsie police checked on him in August,” Superintendent Waldau said.
It comes after a woman who knew Ms Hawatt told Daily Mail Australia she had spoken to the mother-of-five the day before she was allegedly killed.
He said there was no indication anything was wrong.
The woman claimed that the family was going to be kicked out of their unit in a few weeks and that neighbors had complained about them yelling and slamming doors.
Another neighbor said he heard the sound of people hitting walls and chasing each other Tuesday night.
It is understood Mrs Hawatt has no family in Australia, but her husband’s father lived in Condell Park, in Sydney’s south.