NSW: Man found guilty of murdering rival and chopping off penis

AAP General News (Australia)
02-19-2008
NSW: Man found guilty of murdering rival and chopping off penis

SYDNEY, Feb 19 AAP - A Sydney man has been found guilty of murdering his estranged
wife's lover, whose penis he cut off and placed in a bedside drawer.

The NSW Supreme Court jury rejected Gabor Ziha's defence that he was suffering from
an abnormality of the mind at the time of the killing, which would reduce the charge to
manslaughter.

The jury of 11 men and one woman today found Ziha, 57, guilty of murdering Barry Corbett,
58, in August 2006 in a flat at Pararamatta in Sydney's west.

He also was found guilty of maliciously wounding his then estranged wife, Marija Ziha,
who was in bed with Mr Corbett at the time.

In his evidence, Ziha told the jury he had been provoked into cutting off the man's
penis, which was found in a drawer on top of a Cosmopolitan magazine.

He said he had felt Mr Corbett's "provocation", adding his victim "was still provoking
by shoving his genitalia into my face".

"I'm sorry," he said. "I cut it off, his penis."

Ziha also said he told his son his wife had left him for "hot sex".

Justice Graham Barr will hear sentencing submissions on Friday.

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