Woman charged with murder after Wentworth Point car park death
Friends have started to provide a glimpse into the life of Paul Thagipur, the man who died at the weekend after being hit by a car allegedly driven by his ex-girlfriend.
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Friends of a Sydney man who was allegedly mowed down by a former flame in her SUV often met women online for casual dating but planned to return to his home country Iran to marry.
Payman “Paul” Thagipur, 31, died after he was hit by the Toyota Kluger allegedly driven by his ex-lover Jackline Musa, 44, in the car park of his Wentworth Point apartment building on Saturday night.
Investigators are looking into whether a love triangle sparked the incident and said Musa had arrived at Mr Thagipur’s apartment when another woman was inside before storming back to the car park.
Samantha Mourish, who was a close friend of Mr Thagipur’s, told The Daily Telegraph on Monday he regularly used online dating apps and liked to see older women.
“He liked older women … he would just be like ‘I like dating older women or seeing older women’. I’d be like, ‘why’? His thing was the lack of attachment,” Ms Mourish said.
“He used to do that a bit, like be on a dating app and just meet people, see them for awhile and move on.
“It is Tango, the Tango app … that’s the only one I used to see him on.
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“He’s here alone in Australia and he has some really good male friends, but I think he was just looking for companionship at the same time.”
However, Ms Mourish said Mr Thagipur was only in Sydney to save money for himself and his family while working as a painter and wanted to return to his home country of Iran to marry someone in his local community.
“He never planned to stay here forever, his goal was to go back home to be with his family,” she said.
“He always used to say to me … he doesn’t want to settle down, he doesn’t want to have children, because he has to go back home.
“He had a four-year plan in Sydney and that was to make money, because all the money that he was making … he was always sending back. In 2023, he was actually going to go back home.
“I know that when he was going to go back home he was going to get married to someone of his own nationality and in his community. That’s a fact, that’s known, that’s why he didn’t settle down with anyone here.”
Ms Mourish said Mr Thagipur had lived in Perth and had a relationship with a woman before that ended in 2018 and he moved to Sydney.
“He had one serious relationship with an Asian lady (in Perth) but then that had fallen through in 2018 and then during that whole time he was just practically on his own (in Sydney),” she said.
“He didn’t come here for a girlfriend or anything like that, so (he and Musa) must have met here (in Sydney).”