Lebanese Man Charged with Murder of his Wife in Sydney
A Lebanese man was on Tuesday refused bail after allegedly bashing his wife to death in Sydney, Australia, media reports said.
Police said Margaret Tannous, 47, had been bludgeoned to death with a broom handle in their south west Sydney unit, Australian dailies reported.
Her husband, 55-year-old George Tannous did not apply for bail and the case was adjourned for two months.
He allegedly fled before handing himself in at Bankstown Police Station a few hundred meters from the unit where he was charged with murder.
The couple had two teenage children but were not home at the time of the alleged murder.
It is believed Mrs. Tannous' son Elie Boukarim arrived home on Monday night to see his mother being stretchered out by paramedics and police.
In a tribute on Facebook, he wrote "you were the strongest person I knew.”
"My mother, my angel, my life, my queen, the closest person to me, how could this happen to you?" the tribute reads.
"Why would someone ever want to or even think of doing this to you?
"You taught me that the most power you have in this life is in your brain and not your fists or your muscles."
Margaret worked as a migration agent in the Lebanese community.
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