Members of an Adelaide family charged over an attempted ‘honour killing’ say they have no case to answer

Members of a family charged with an attempted honour killing of a young woman in a suburban carpark will argue the charges against them should be thrown out, a court has heard.

Three members of a family charged over an alleged attempted “honour killing” will argue their charges should be thrown out, a court has heard.

Six members of the Muslim family – who cannot be identified due to a suppression order – each appeared in the Adelaide Magistrates Court on Tuesday.

Five of them allegedly attempted to kill a woman – the sister and daughter of the accused people – in a carpark at Sefton Plaza last year after she fell in love with a Christian man.

The victim was then allegedly forced into a car and taken to a house at Blair Athol suffering stab wounds to her abdomen before she was found and taken to the Royal Adelaide Hospital.

Three members of the family – the alleged victim’s mother, 56, sister, 29, and a brother, 31, – told the court they would argue they had no case to answer.

They are each charged with attempted murder and false imprisonment. That brother is also charged with aggravated criminal trespass, aggravated assault and threaten to kill over a home invasion where they believed the victim’s partner lived. He conceded a case to answer in relation to those charges.

A member of a family group charged with attempted murder and false imprisonment over a suspected honour killing attempt in the northern suburb. Picture: NCA NewsWire

The other three accused – including the alleged victim’s father, 57, and brother-in-law, 28, – conceded they had a case to answer in relation to attempted murder and false imprisonment offences. They each indicated they intended to plead not guilty to the charges.

Another brother, 25, who is not charged with attempted murder but charged with aggravated serious criminal trespass and aggravated assault, also conceded he had a case to answer.

Those charges relate to the same alleged home invasion with the 31-year-old brother. He also indicated he would enter not guilty pleas.

The court has previously heard the Muslim family objected to the victim’s boyfriend, a Christian man, and planned their alleged “attempted honour killing”.

It heard that the 25-year-old brother had installed a tracking app on her phone after the family became aware that the victim had entered a relationship with a man of a different faith.

“Their perception was dishonour had been brought on his family,” prosecutor Tali Costi had told the court.

The brother was allegedly tasked to monitor his sister after she removed the tracking app.

The court has heard the victim’s sister and a brother had allegedly held her while her father stabbed her.

All six accused are set to return to court in September when they will argue no case to answer submissions ahead of entering any pleas.