A WIFE has confessed to killing and dismembering her husband before scattering his body parts in bin bags across Sydney.
Nirmeen Noufl, 55, pleaded guilty to manslaughter and revealed that her 30-year marriage had been riddled with abuse and infidelity.
Nirmeen revealed the grim series of events which led up to the death of her husband Mahmoud Noufl’s death in May 2023.
She claimed they had a violent argument with Mahmoud, 62, chasing her from room to room before pinning her to the kitchen floor and trying to choke her.
Fearing for her life, she grabbed a nearby tool lying around from the house renovation and stabbed him in the chest.
Two months later Mahmoud was reported missing – and in October 2024 Nirmeen was charged with one count of murder.
She had been due to appear in court for a mammoth 40-day murder trial – but at the 11th-hour Nirmeen pleaded guilty to manslaughter.
She confessed to killing her husband in their Greenacre home sometime between May 3 and May 4, 2023.
The couple’s more than 30-year marriage had reportedly been turbulent – with multiple counts of alleged violence and infidelity.
Days before his death, Mahmoud had revealed that he was having an affair – and planning to marry his mistress.
Nirmeen initially demanded a divorce – but then resorted to more desperate measures, unable to ignore “the voices in my head”.
A witness had spotted Nirmeen with a cut to her forehead, bleeding lip and a swollen jaw on the night of the killing.
The same witness, who cannot be named, also said they had seen a “large round saw” beneath plastic tarp on the floor of the house.
She later dismembered the body and scattered the remains across suburbs in Sydney.
His strewn corpse is yet to be found – making it difficult to establish how he was killed.
Acoording to court docs, Nirmeen told a friend that she “had enough” of being treated “like sh*t”.
“We had a fight and he was laughing at me”, she told a witness who cannot be identified.
“He just treated me like sh*t, spat at me. I had enough.
“I have been trying to ignore the voices in my head.
“I’m sorry and that I regret it, but I genuinely believe it didn’t happen, and I don’t know how I did it.”
Documents suggest that Mahmoud – who held conservative Islamic views – had been “controlling of his wife”.
He refused to divorce her – even after telling her he planned to elope to Egypt with another woman.
The mistress had been sent around £8,000 (550,000 Egyptian pounds) to buy a new home abroad – but two weeks after Mahmoud’s death, she received a Facebook message demanding the money back.
Unaware that her lover had been killed, she asked for a voice message from the sender.
The unidentified messenger replied: “You have no shame. You know that this money belongs to my wife Nirmeen. So even if she is the one sending the message, she (has) the right to demand it from you.”
Nirmeen had access to her husband’s Facebook account – but court docs do not confirm whether she was the sender.
For two months Nirmeen kept up the ruse that her husband was still alive, sending messages from his phone and turning away relatives who tried to visit by saying that he was tired and did not want to see anyone.
She said he “did not want to talk to anyone because he was embarrassed and ashamed about his affair”.
