A paranoid husband who tried to hire a hitman to murder his wife's
Facebook friend was suffering major stress, an Australian court heard
Monday.
Silvanus Satya Naidu was so upset when he wrongly thought his wife of
28 years was going to leave him and move to Sydney, that he tried to
hire an assassin.
The church and charity worker resorted to extreme measures instead of talking to his wife, who had no intention of leaving him.
But Naidu
found himself in the Supreme Court in Brisbane on criminal charges when
the hitman turned out to be a police covert operator.
Justice
James Douglas sentenced Naidu to seven years' jail, but because of the
mitigating circumstances and 345 days Naidu had spent on remand set a
parole eligibility date of Februay 19 next year.
