A woman who allegedly ordered a hit on her husband’s life is begging for the courts to go easy on her.
Lawyers defending Indonesian woman Noor Ellis, demand that her premeditated murder charge be dropped, reports the Australian.
The woman’s husband of 25 years, Australian businessman Robert Ellis, was found dead in a rice field ditch in October 2014, wrapped in plastic, with his throat slit.
Noor Ellis, along with five other alleged hit men and two maids who allegedly assisted with cleaning up the murder scene and keeping the family’s dogs quiet, are standing trial for Robert Ellis’ brutal killing.
Prosecutors last week recommended Noor Ellis get 15 years for ordering the hit, that she allegedly paid $15,000 for.
However her defense attorney Nyoman Wisnu and his team of three other lawyers rejected this prosecution request, and lawyer Ketut Suwiga Arya Dauh even reportedly said that Noor Ellis had not made the kill order or had helped. Adding that she gave the men involved in her husband’s death a pillow and towel, not a knife, which was the ultimate murder weapon.
But while the defense is saying the possible 15 year sentence is too extreme, the Noor Ellis and her murdered husband’s sons are saying it’s too light.
“Please give me a light sentence. I want to look after my children because they are in schools. I promise not to repeat my mistake,’’ she said, as quoted by the Australian.
But her son Peter Ellis who is a student in Perth with his brother John Ellis doesn’t agree: “We don’t need her support, we don’t want her support, we don’t want to see her again, full stop.
“If they hand down 15 years, I will be very disappointed because it is cold-blooded murder; 15 years does not do justice.
“We would like life imprisonment. And as far as we know, that’s not going to happen.”
Peter has also been vocal on his Twitter account during his mother’s trial, basically asking WTF, when it was first announced that the prosecution would be seeking just 15 years.
The trial will reportedly pick up again next week.
