Altaf Hossain: Matter of Minto murder accused returns to Campbelltown Local Court

More than three years after a woman’s body was found in the garage of her Minto home, the case remains before the courts. Read the latest.

Legal teams await the return of an expert report as an alleged murder case remains before the courts more than three years after a mother’s body was found in her garage.

The body of Syeda Nirupama Hossain was found after a family friend was called to the home on Carruthers St, Minto about 4am on April 21, 2019.

According to prosecutors, Altaf Hossain, now aged 54, allegedly murdered the 33-year-old mother of their two children at their home.

On Wednesday at Campbelltown Local Court, a representative for the Director of Public Prosecutions said they were seeking a three-week adjournment as there was an “expert report that we still have not received”.

Syeda Nirupama Hossain.

Detectives from State Crime Command’s Homicide Squad at Carruthers St Minto on April 21, 2019. Picture: Monique Harmer

Mr Hossain’s lawyer confirmed there was some difficulty as the expert had Covid.

The matter returns to court on September 28. Mr Hossain has not entered any pleas in relation to the matter, he remains in custody on remand.

On Easter Sunday morning in 2019, distraught neighbours left their houses to see forensics crews combing the house of the “lovely mother” they had grown to know through play dates with their children and exchanges of home-cooked meals.

Ms Hossain supported the family by cooking traditional Bangladeshi sweets and selling them to shops in Minto and Lakemba.

“She was a very lovely mother and she took her children to school every day,” neighbour and close friend of the family Shamsul Huda told The Macarthur Chronicle at the time.

“She make Bangladeshi sweets and sell to the shop.”

Another neighbour and close friend of the woman, Khadija Sarker, said she was deeply spiritual and a devoted Muslim.