00:00This is the verdict the family of Mariam Hamkar have been waiting for.
00:06Today Toby Lochnane, a 44-year-old Melbourne man, found guilty of murdering the 36-year-old
00:11woman in a Brighton home in April of 2021.
00:16Lochnane had pleaded not guilty to murder, instead insisting that the woman had died
00:21of a drug overdose.
00:23It took two years for him to tell police that he had buried her in a hole and filled it
00:27with lime at Cape Shank on Melbourne's Mornington Peninsula.
00:32The jury heard during the trial that Lochnane had made repeated death threats to Ms Hamkar,
00:37including sending a text that said, I'll kill you.
00:40Earlier the family of Ms Hamkar spoke outside court saying they're grateful for the verdict.
00:45This has been a really long, extremely mentally hard process for us and we're happy that we've
00:52got justice for my sister Mariam.
00:54It's been a long three years and it's all over now.
00:58We've got a guilty outcome and we're happy.
01:00The family also said they're grateful to the hard work of the prosecution.
01:04Toby Lochnane will be sentenced in October.
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