Novy Chardon’s ex-boyfriend doesn’t have alibi for days after disappearance

A man who was in a relationship with Novy Chardon before she disappeared has given evidence at the murder trial of her lubricant tycoon husband via a video link from the US.

NOVY Chardon’s ex-boyfriend does not have an alibi for the days following the woman’s disappearance, a court has heard.

Novy was last seen on February 6, 2013.

She has not used her bank accounts, left the country or seen a doctor since that date but her body has never been found.

Her car was found nearby the Nerang train station on about five days after she went missing.

Her husband, lubricant tycoon John Chardon, is accused of killing the woman on or about February 6, 2013.

He has pleaded not guilty to his wife’s murder in the Supreme Court in Brisbane.

During the fifth day of his trial, a man who was in a relationship with Novy prior to her disappearance gave evidence via video link from Nevada in the United States.

Novy Chardon.

In 2012, Amir Talaei-Khoei aka Ben had been working at a Sunshine Coast university and was in a relationship with Novy, the court heard.

Ben told the court he was aware Novy was “legally separated” at the time she began a physical relationship with him.

The pair would stay in a hotel on the Gold Coast together while Chardon looked after he and Novy’s children or she would visit him on the Sunshine Coast, the court heard.

But in late 2012, the pair went to a restaurant and agreed to break up, Mr Talaei-Khoei said.

He described Novy’s response to the separation as “very logical”.

Mr Talaei-Khoei said during evidence he had wanted a more serious relationship but Novy’s children were a “problem”.

The court heard Novy continued to contact Mr Talaei-Khoei in the months after they split up but the man wanted “nothing to do with her”.

He rekindled a relationship with another woman named Ploy, who had been living in Thailand, the court heard.

John Chardon in Brisbane Supreme Court. Picture: Brett Lethbridge

The court heard police came to see Mr Talaei-Khoei on February 10, four days after Novy had gone missing.

He told them he had been sick since February 6, the day Novy went missing, and did not go to work, the court heard.

Mr Talaei-Khoei said in evidence he may have left the house only once to get food and medication.

The court heard he did not use his phone between February 6 and February 8, 2013.

“Because I was sick,” Mr Talaei-Khoei said.

When Mr Kimmins put to the man he did not have any alibi “at all” from 4pm on February 6 until police arrived at his home on February 10, Mr Talaei-Khoei told the court he would have been captured on CCTV when he went out.

“If you’re (talking about) somebody looking at me at home, I was living alone,” he said.

The court also heard Novy previously went “out of contact” for about a week before coming back into contact, according to Mr Talaei-Khoei.

The trial continues.

Originally published as Novy Chardon’s ex-boyfriend doesn’t have alibi for days after disappearance