Mustafa Kunduraci pleads guilty to murdering Greg Tucker and Korinne Aylward in Moonee Ponds home
A FORMER Turkish soldier who butchered a Melbourne couple over a renovation dispute has pleaded guilty to the shocking crime.
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A FORMER Turkish soldier who butchered a Melbourne couple over a renovation dispute has pleaded guilty to the shocking crime.
Mustafa Kunduraci, 44, of Meadow Heights, repeatedly stabbed Greg Tucker and his partner Korinne Aylward to death in December 2013 after an argument over a debt for plaster work he had done at their Moonee Ponds home.
The couple’s three children, aged between two and five years old, were in another room at the time and escaped uninjured.
Mr Kunduraci today pleaded guilty in the Supreme Court to two charges of murder.
At his committal hearing last year, Kunduraci pleaded not guilty to the crimes.
He was due to go on trial on September 14, but will now return to court on September 25 for a plea hearing.
Court documents released during his committal revealed Kunduraci told Ozan Girgin – a lawyer friend of Mr Tucker’s who was trying to mediate the debt issue – he would hurt the couple if they did not pay him $20,000.
“One day I am going to f**k them up. I have an insanity report and nothing major will happen to me. I will get off on it,’’ he said.
The documents state Kunduraci removed his Nike runners before entering the couple’s home armed with an Arcosteel carving knife and a bag containing a roll of duct tape, cable ties, two large plastic bags and a spray bottle of petrol.
Neighbours reported hearing an argument within the house before Kunduraci allegedly murdered the couple.
The killer then walked outside and called 000, telling the operator he had attended the house to collect money and got into a fight in which he was stabbed in the hand.
He later texted his business partner Hakan Kayer asking him to tell everyone to forgive him.
When Mr Kayar called him back, Kunduraci allegedly said he had acted in self-defence.
“I came to Greg’s house. I didn’t want this to happen. They tried to fight me. I killed them,’’ he claimed.
The documents also revealed Kunduraci’ long-term girlfriend had become concerned he might hurt the couple a week before he murdered them, warning Mr Girgin that if her boyfriend went to go and ask for money there would be an altercation which could send him to prison.
Police alleged the deadly dispute began when Mr Tucker paid the plasterer a $20,000 advance to preform intricate plastering work on his home.
When the couple were unhappy with his progress, they offered to bring in another plasterer, but Kunduraci convinced them he could complete the work.
When Mr Girgin contacted the plasterer, he allegedly claimed he had never been paid the $20,000 advance and wanted it paid in full.
When the plaster suppliers demanded $13732 off Kunduraci for materials he used on the Tucker job, he had his lawyers demand more than $58,000 from Mr Tucker.
Months later the couple were murdered.