International love triangle: Husband allegedly killed and dismembered over secret lover

Police allege that an international love triangle was the motive behind a woman killing her husband and dismembering him with a saw before dumping him in bins across Sydney.

An international love-triangle was allegedly the motive behind a woman killing her husband, cutting him into pieces with a saw and dumping him in rubbish bins across Sydney.

Nirmeen Noufl, 53, was allegedly motivated to kill Mamdouh, her husband of more than 30 years with whom she had eight children, after discovering he had a lover in Egypt he was sending money to.

Police sources said it would be alleged that in the months after finding this out, Noufl attacked her husband during an argument in their home on Juno Parade in Greenacre.

When that attack proved fatal, Noufl allegedly used a combination of a drop saw and kitchen implements to chop up his body, which she then dumped in public rubbish bins.

Mamdouh Noufl was allegedly murdered by his wife Nirmeen Noufl, who is accused of chopping his body up and putting it in rubbish bins. Picture: Supplied.

Police sources said it would be alleged she then used chemicals to clean up DNA and burnt her husband’s clothes to destroy that evidence.

Noufl was arrested by NSW Police last week more than a year after a missing persons alert was first issued for her husband.

Homicide Squad boss Danny Doherty said following her arrest that police would allege Noufl was a woman “who manipulates people and manipulates the truth”.

“The accused had taken his (her husband’s) phone and social media accounts, reporting he was still alive,” Detective Superintendent Doherty said.

The Daily Telegraph can reveal it will be alleged Noufl used her husband’s social media accounts to contact his girlfriend in Egypt and ask her to return money he had sent to her.

The house at 94 Juno Parade, Greenacre where Mamdouh and Nirmeen Noufl lived.

Strike Force Tannerie investigators carried out a search warrant at the home on Juno Parade in Greenacre last week. Picture: NSW Police

When Noufl was arrested by Strike Force Tannerie investigators last week she was a patient at Bankstown Hospital.

Detectives last week carried out search warrants at Noufl’s home on Juno Parade, as well as another address in Condell Park.

Det Supt Doherty said it would be alleged Noufl put her husband’s “body parts in plastic bags and disposed of the remains in various rubbish bins, residential areas and industrial areas in southwest Sydney”.

“There was significant cleaning of the house and reflooring of the house,” he said.

“We will allege in court she was solely responsible for his murder and dismemberment.”

Mamdouh’s disappearance had been the talk of the local Egyptian community in Sydney, who described as ‘a gold man” and being “very pure”.

Noufl faced Bankstown Local Court on Friday, where she made no application for bail and was remanded in custody until her next appearance. Picture: NSW Police

Khaled Yousef, a member of the Egyptian Islamic Society, said his friends believed he had moved interstate or overseas and no longer wanted to associate with them.

“When he disappeared we thought he moved to another state and didn’t want to talk to anyone,” Mr Yousef said.

“We kept trying to contact him and call him but there was no answer … we thought maybe he doesn’t want to speak to us.”

“We would never expect something like this to happen to him.”

Originally published as International love triangle: Husband allegedly killed and dismembered over secret lover