Sydney honour killing: son found guilty of bashing consulate driver to death

A Sydney student has been found guilty of murdering his mother's lover in what has been described as an honour killing.

In a unanimous decision this morning after a week of deliberations, a jury convicted Andrew Iskandar, 21, but found him not guilty to a charge of soliciting a prisoner to murder a key witness in the trial.

Iskandar had denied murdering Mohd Shah Saemin, 43, outside his flat at Leichhardt, in Sydney's inner west, about midnight on February 21 last year.

The trial was told how the victim, a driver for the Malaysian consulate, was bashed with a hammer "like a piece of meat".    Read Here